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Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper leverages nationally representative surveys across 60 countries and 64,000 respondents to present novel stylized facts about the relationship-specific nature of altruism.
Alexander W. Cappelen +2 more
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Corporate Mindfulness Culture and Neoliberalism
The Review of Radical Political Economics, 2022 Corporate mindfulness is the favorite labor management technique of the neoliberal period. The formalized packaging of corporate mindfulness began in the late 1970s but was built on a long tradition of attempts to hack the minds of workers in the United ...
M. Wrenn
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More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
Social Science Research Network, 2020 This paper investigates whether the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, credit card expenses, and geo-localized mobile phone data for approximately 60 million ...
Nicolás Ajzenman +2 more
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A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 We construct a database linking European royal kinship networks, monarchies, and wars to study the effect of family ties on conflict. To establish causality, we exploit decreases in connection caused by apolitical deaths of rulers’ mutual relatives ...
Seth G. Benzell, Kevin Cooke
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External Influences and Religious Paticularism in the Balkans: the “Bulgarian Case”
Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics, 2022 The article examines some of the contemporary external factors and processes influencing religious identity of all Bulgarian citizens who profess Islam (referred to as Bulgarian Muslims in the text). It analyzes the degree of religiousness of the Muslims
Sonia Hinkova
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Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in Nineteenth-Century France
The American Economic Review, 2020 This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870–1914).
M. Squicciarini
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Waqf Forest: How Waqf Can Play a Role In Forest Preservation and SDGs Achievement?
, 2020 Previous studies about waqf for forest conservation mostly concentrated on its potential or its prospect for forest preservation or environmental protection.
Khalifah Muhamad Ali, Salina Kassim
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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Social Science Research NetworkWe study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics
Sascha O. Becker +3 more
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Minority Salience and Political Extremism
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016 We investigate how the salience of an ethnic minority affects the majority group’s voting behavior. We use the increased salience of Muslim communities during Ramadan as a natural experiment.
Tommaso Colussi +2 more
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The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics
Social Science Research Network, 2019 We study the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. Using subnational georeferenced data from 15 countries from 1996 to 2017, we compare individuals from ethnicities linked to parties at the margin of electing a ...
Francesco Amodio +2 more
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