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Activated History: The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We show that history stored in collective memories and activated by political campaigns can create xenophobia and radicalization. Turkish troops besieged Vienna in 1529 and 1683 and pillaged individual Austrian villages, killing and kidnapping in the ...
Christian Ochsner, Felix Roesel
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Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Exploring a drastic change in media landscape in Poland, we show that mainstream media can significantly affect religious participation. After nationalist populist party PiS came to power in 2015, news on state and private independent TV diverged due to ...
Irena Grosfeld, Etienne Madinier, S. Sakalli, E. Zhuravskaya   +3 more
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World Religions and Human Capital Investment: The Case of Primary Education

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2019
Using data on 150 countries, this article studies if and how the largest world religions have affected the extent of primary education at the national level over the period 1972–2010.
H. Feldmann
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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance during Pregnancy

, 2011
D. Almond, B. Mazumder
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"God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction

, 2014
P. Leeson
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Religious Beliefs, Religious Participation, and Cooperation †

, 2012
Gilat Levy, R. Razin
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School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

, 2008
David Card, M. Dooley, A. Payne
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Confucianism and the East Asian Miracle

, 2010
Ming-Yih Liang
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For God, Tsar and Fatherland? The Political Influence of Church

Social Science Research Network, 2022
This paper investigates the influence of the Orthodox Church network in Post-Soviet Russia on individual political preferences and election results. I use the numbers of monks and nuns from Orthodox monasteries operated in the Russian Empire before the ...
Ekaterina Travova
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Seniorenzentren ohne Besucher_innen: Aktivitäten religiöser Migrantengemeinden für ältere Menschen während der COVID-19-Pandemie

Sozialer Fortschritt, 2022
Senior Centers Without Visitors: Activities of Ethnic Congregations For the Elderly During the COVID-19 Pandemic The aim of this paper is to investigate activities of ethnic congregations for the elderly during the pandemic.
M. Breuer
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