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Education and religion
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This article is published in Peabody Journal of Education.The article was published on 1935-03-01. It has received 280 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comparative theology & Lived religion.read more
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Religion and Economic Growth across Countries
TL;DR: The authors used international survey data on religiosity for a broad panel of countries to investigate the effects of church attendance and religious beliefs on economic growth and found that economic growth responds positively to religious beliefs, notably beliefs in hell and heaven, but negatively to church attendance.
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Sascha O. Becker,Ludger Wößmann +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that Protestantism was associated with higher economic prosperity, but also with better education, and found that Protestants' higher literacy can account for the whole gap in economic prosperity when using distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism.
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Religion and Economic Growth
TL;DR: This paper used international survey data on religiosity for a broad panel of countries to investigate the effects of church attendance and religious beliefs on economic growth, finding that economic growth responds positively to the extent of religious beliefs, notably those in hell and heaven, but negatively to church attendance.
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Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance
Kenneth Scheve,David Stasavage +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that individuals who are religious are more likely to prefer lower levels of social insurance than will those who are not religious, and they empirically test their predictions using individual-level data on religiosity, individual-specific data on social insurance preferences, and cross-country data on Social Spending outcomes.
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Fertility trends by social status
TL;DR: In this paper, fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset, several times larger than the ones used so far, and the status-fertility relation is investigated over several centuries, across world regions and by the type of status-measure.
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Religion and Economic Growth across Countries
TL;DR: The authors used international survey data on religiosity for a broad panel of countries to investigate the effects of church attendance and religious beliefs on economic growth and found that economic growth responds positively to religious beliefs, notably beliefs in hell and heaven, but negatively to church attendance.
Posted Content
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Sascha O. Becker,Ludger Wößmann +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that Protestantism was associated with higher economic prosperity, but also with better education, and found that Protestants' higher literacy can account for the whole gap in economic prosperity when using distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism.
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Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance
Kenneth Scheve,David Stasavage +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that individuals who are religious are more likely to prefer lower levels of social insurance than will those who are not religious, and they empirically test their predictions using individual-level data on religiosity, individual-specific data on social insurance preferences, and cross-country data on Social Spending outcomes.
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Fertility trends by social status
TL;DR: In this paper, fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset, several times larger than the ones used so far, and the status-fertility relation is investigated over several centuries, across world regions and by the type of status-measure.
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Religious Intermarriage and Socialization in the United States
TL;DR: The authors used data from the General Social Survey to estimate the structural parameters of a model of marriage and child socialization along religious lines in the United States and found that the observed intermarriage and socialization rates are consistent with Protestants, Catholics, and Jews having a strong preference for children who identify with their own religious beliefs and making costly decisions to influence their children's religious beliefs.