In Crisis, We Pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 Pandemic
In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14824
16 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14824
SSRN
Working paper
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 129, Heft 622, S. 2295-2321
ISSN: 1468-0297
AbstractReligious beliefs potentially influence individual behaviour. But why are some societies more religious than others? One possible answer is religious coping: individuals turn to religion to deal with unbearable and unpredictable life events. To investigate whether coping can explain global differences in religiosity, I combine a global dataset on individual-level religiosity with spatial data on natural disasters. Individuals become more religious if an earthquake recently hit close by. Even though the effect decreases after a while, data on children of immigrants reveal a persistent effect across generations. The results point to religious coping as the main mediating channel, but alternative explanations such as mutual insurance or migration cannot be ruled out entirely. The findings may help explain why religiosity has not vanished as some scholars once predicted.
SSRN
Working paper
SSRN
Working paper
In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16938
SSRN
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 341-353
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 341-353
ISSN: 0305-750X
World Affairs Online
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 129, Heft 618, S. 678-714
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: NBER Working Paper No. w21193
SSRN
Working paper
SSRN
Working paper
In: Univ. of Copenhagen Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 13-17
SSRN
Working paper
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 37-55
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractThis paper uses two industrial firm surveys to identify the key determinants of credit demand in Mozambican manufacturing. We construct five different measures of being credit constrained and estimate desired debt demand. Besides firm size and ownership structure, we find evidence that general manager education and business association membership are associated with whether a firm is credit constrained or not. Using our preferred measure of credit constraint suggests that around 43 per cent of the firms surveyed are constrained, and these enterprises would almost triple their debt burden if borrowing constraints were relaxed. © 2016 The Authors. Journal of International Development published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 127, Heft 604, S. 1756-1793
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: Andersen , T B , Bentzen , J , Dalgaard , C-J L & Selaya , P 2008 ' On the Impact of Digital Technologies on Corruption : Evidence from U.S. States and Across Countries ' Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen .
We hypothesize that the spread of the Internet has reduced corruption, chiefly through two mechanisms. First, the Internet facilitates the dissemination of information about corrupt behavior, which raises the detection risks to shady bureaucrats and politicians. Second, the Internet has reduced the interface between bureaucrats and the public. Using cross-country data and data for the U.S. states, we test this hypothesis. Data spans the period during which the Internet has been in operation. In order to address the potential endogeneity problem, we develop a novel identification strategy for Internet diffusion. Digital equipment is highly sensitive to power disruption: it leads to equipment failure and damage. Even very short disruptions (less than 1/60th of a second) can have such consequences. Accordingly, more frequent power failures will increase the user cost of IT capital; either directly, through depreciation, or indirectly, through the costs of protective devises. Ceteris paribus , we expect that higher IT user costs will lower the speed of Internet diffusion. A natural phenomenon which causes a major part of annual power disruptions globally is lightning activity. Lightning therefore provides exogenous variation in the user cost of IT capital. Based on global satellite data from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), we construct lightning density data for a large cross section of countries and for the U.S. states. We demonstrate that the lightning density variable is a strong instrument for changes in Internet penetration; and we proceed to show that the spread of the Internet has reduced the extent of corruption across the globe and across the U.S. The size of the impact is economically and statistically significant
BASE
In: The Economic Journal, Band 127, Heft 604, S. 1756-1793
SSRN