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Barro, Robert J.; McCleary, Rachel M. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 120 (2008) 4, pp. 1331-1370

For 188 independent countries in 2000, 72 had no state religion in the years 2000, 1970, and 1900; 58 had a state … religion at all three dates; and 58 had some kind of transition. Among the 58 transitional countries, 12 had two transitions, 4 … of which (former Soviet Republics in Asia) involved two forms of state religion. The probability of having a state …

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International Determinants of Religiosity

Barro, Robert - 2003

Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the … depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under … religion tends to increase religiosity, probably because of the subsidies that flow to organized religion. However, in …

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Forbidden Fruits : The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - 2015

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …

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Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel

Barro, Robert J. - 2002

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home

Aimone, Jason A. - 2019

Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...

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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior

Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...

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Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks

Adukia, Anjali; Harrison, Emileigh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

female representation, feature lighter-skinned individuals, and portray topics like evolution and religion differently. Over …

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Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets

Joskow, Paul L. - 2004

Despite all of the talk about deregulation' of the electricity sector, a large number of non-market mechanisms have been imposed on emerging competitive wholesale and retail markets. These mechanisms include spot market price caps, operating reserve requirements, non-price rationing protocols,...

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How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

This paper considers the role of incentive based climate adaptation policies. It uses the early literature on pricing and capacity choices under demand uncertainty to describe how revised price structures for the substitutes for climate services can be treated as anticipatory adaptation. In many...

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The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance : A Conceptual Framework and Survey

Adams, Renée - 2008

This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors, with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards are what determines their makeup and what determines their actions? These questions are...

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