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Do labor market institutions matter for fertility?

Camilli, Andrea; Lagerborg, Andresa - 2017

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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain

Adsera, Alicia - 2004

. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262142

Egalitarian religion and economics

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758

The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273867

Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn Lilian - 2004

This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and … within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275026

The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336012

Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391202

Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383297

Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2021

We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621557