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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 508-532, April 2026.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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The Social Contract in the European Union's Context
European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-121, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet +1 more
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 251-275, April 2026.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 282-291, April 2026.ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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THE PRESERVATION OF IMPLICIT DOGMATISM IN SECULARIZATION
Научный вестник МГТУ ГА, 2016 Secularization in modern society is contradictory. Although there exists factor that contributes to the secularization there are some factors that restrain the processes of the secularization and strengthen the position of religion.
D. V. Kanakov
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Economy as a religious problem: A political approach [PDF]
, 2017 This article tackles the problem of understanding money and economy with non-economic analytical categories. The first part is devoted to point out the differences between the exclusively economic approaches to money and the recent research, from ...
Ludueña, Fabian Javier
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National Aggregates and Individual Disaffiliation: An International Study [PDF]
Using a data set of 15,000 subjects from 32 western countries, the current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their lives left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’.
Pablo Brañas-Garza +2 more
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The Big Carrot:High-Stakes Incentives Revisited [PDF]
Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice.
Pablo Brañas-Garza +2 more
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Not the opium of the people : income and secularization in a panel of Prussian counties [PDF]
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911.
Becker, Sascha O., Woessmann, Ludger
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Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America
SociusA large body of literature analyzes trends of religious decline across Western Europe and North America. Often rooted in secularization theory—the idea that modernization reduces religious beliefs and practice—this research lacks attention to global ...
Matthew Blanton
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