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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We … gender protection). Using two new measures of religion – religious fractionalization (RELFRAC) and religious polarization … (RELPOL), alongside the traditional measure of religious diversity, our results suggest that broadly speaking, religion or …

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Religion and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : Unbundling Religious Institutions

Mandzik, Amanda; Young, Andrew T. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014

Evidence of relationships between religious affiliation and the African AIDS pandemic is found in the medical, religion … significant relationship between an index of social regulation of religion and HIV prevalence. …

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

Pezzini, Silvia; MacCulloch, Robert - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of 130,000 people living in 61 nations...

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Suicide Attacks and Religious Cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2015

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...

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Suicide Attacks and Religious Cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2015

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Theocracy and resilience against economic sanctions

Naghavi, Alireza; Pignataro, Giuseppe - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 1-12

This paper provides a simply theory to explain the impact of sanctions on a regime's policies and behavior. Sanctions are generally put to strip the target country from its available rents and weaken the government's stance against growing discontent in the population. We show however that...

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Skewed Norms under Peer Pressure: Formation and Collapse

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 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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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

Pezzini, Silvia; MacCulloch, Robert - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2003

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importanceof political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach toprovide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of130,000 people living in 61 nations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007323

From Rebellion to Electoral Violence. Evidence from Burundi

Colombo, Andrea; D'Aoust, Olivia; Sterck, Olivier - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2014

We aim at understanding the triggers of electoral violence, which spoiled 80% ofelections in Africa during the last decades. We focus on Burundi, a country wherepolls were organized in 2010, only few months after the end of a long-lasting civilwar. We find that an acute polarization between...

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