less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …

Catholics. Third, our data suggest that the link between risk aversion and religion is driven by social aspects of church …

religion is a moderator of time preference across potential investments, including: savings, social capital, and human capital …

Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We … investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using data from correspondence studies. We utilize … measures produce qualitatively similar results, and, opposite to the observational studies, suggests that ethnic discrimination …

Can outside interventions foster socio-culturally diverse friendships? We executed a large field experiment that … similarity with respect to educational achievement, gender, and ethnicity. However, the probability of a manifest friendship … highlight that transgressing boundaries defined by ethnicity and gender remains an uphill battle. …

-registered randomized field experiment on inter-ethnic discrimination in 40 Hungarian schools. We show that neither manipulating the … non- Roma students' interethnic discrimination. These findings suggest that inter-ethnic contact may be neutral with … respect to discrimination in many everyday settings, thus failing both to fulfill the hopes of contact theory and to actualize …