Similar Search Results

Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States.

Chaudhary, Latika; Rubin, Jared - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013

Religious identity affects preferences and can consequently affect policy. We propose two mechanisms through which a ruler's religious identity can affect public good provision: i) greater provision of goods in regions where more subjects are the ruler's co-religionists, and ii) lower provision...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699800

The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law

Kuran, Timur; Rubin, Jared - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014

In advanced economies interest rates generally vary inversely with the borrower’s socio-economic status, because status tends to depend inversely on default risk. Both of these relationships depend critically on the impartiality of the law. Specifically, they require a lender to be able to sue...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096835

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital …-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that Islam and Islamic institutions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269435

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049

Religion and Growth

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

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function – physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology – 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467756

Religion and Growth

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

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469638

Religion and Growth

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469796

The financial power of the powerless : socio-economic status and interest rates under partial rule of law

Kuran, Timur; Rubin, Jared - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529047

Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065

Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328