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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Geographical divides in male premature mortality in the CEE-FSU European region: an ecological study of 2320 spatial units in 12 countries, 2003-2019. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Public Health
Grigoriev P   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

Global burden of orofacial pain in adults in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesNatl J Maxillofac Surg
Chala S   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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