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Strategic behavior and organizational structure in religions

Wittman, Donald A. - 2012

the context of the small (religious institutions). --religious organizations ; autocracy ; age ; organizational structure …Religions are organized in a variety of ways. They may resemble an elected autocracy, a parliamentary democracy, or … institutionalized and when the age of a person may be an important strategic factor in choosing a leader. I am thus able to explain what …

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Skewed norms under peer pressure : formation and collapse

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014 - This version June 2014

This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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Do bishops matter for politics? : evidence from Italy

Lanzara, Gianandrea; Lazzaroni, Sara; Masella, Paolo; … - 2023

This paper studies whether and how religious leaders affect politics. Focusing on Italian dioceses in the period from 1948 to 1992, we find that the identity of the bishop in office explains a significant amount of the variation in the vote share for the Christian Democracy party (DC). This...

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Faith and assimilation: Italian immigrants in the US

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper offers the first systematic evidence on this topic by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America,...

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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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African Development, Partnership and Rationality Challenge : An Exposition

Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2013

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa's economy is the least developed...

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Communism as the Unhappy Coming

Djankov, Simeon - 2018

We show that Eastern Orthodox believers are less happy compared to those of Catholic and Protestant faith using data covering more than 100 countries around the world. Consistent with the happiness results, we also find that relative to Catholics, Protestants and non-believers, those of Eastern...

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Guts, Grit and God? Spiritual Capital and Entrepreneurial Resilience in a Turbulent Environment

Kolade, Oluwaseun; Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Adegbite, Emmanuel - 2023

This paper investigates the role of spiritual capital in a turbulent sub-Saharan African context, where religion plays a dominant role in society and firms are grappling with macroeconomic shocks and institutional instability recently exacerbated by covid-19 pandemic. The study draws from a...

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Religion as an unemployment insurance and the basis of support for public safety nets : the case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Pecha, Camilo; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2015

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well-being and it examines its support of social programs. The paper goes beyond existing literature in three ways: It extends existing literature to Latin America and Caribbean countries;...

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