IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9320

The New Economics of Religion

Sriya Iyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9244

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Justina A.V. Fischer, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9177

Christianity and Infant Health in India

Nidhiya Menon, Kathleen McQueeney

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8975

Religion and Innovation

Roland Benabou, Davide Ticchi, Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8497

Terrorism and the Media

Michael Jetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8496

Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Guido Heineck

revised version published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44(7), 869 - 883

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8494

Fetus, Fasting, and Festival: The Persistent Effects of in Utero Social Shocks

Xi Chen

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014, 3: 165-169, DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8293

Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India

Nishith Prakash, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

forthcoming in: Feminist Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8163

Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8111

Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Andrew Henley

published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8092

Immigrants and Religion

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8017

Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Resul Cesur, Naci Mocan

published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8016

Education Promoted Secularization

Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann

published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7976

A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

substantially revised version forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Growth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7946

The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol

published as 'Roll a Die and Tell a Lie: What Affects Honesty?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 153-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7683

Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Antonio M. Espín, Shoshana Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7511

After the Farm Crisis: Religiosity in the Rural United States

Wafa Hakim Orman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7434

Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors

Jason J. Delaney, John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2014, 35 (4), 464-476

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7356

Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Francesco Pastore, Simona Tenaglia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7259

Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho

revised version forthcoming in: Economic Journal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7254

The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7218

The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths: A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009

Pieter Bevelander, Mikael Hjerm, Jenny Kiiskinen

published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015, 38 (15), 2705-2721.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7188

Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel

Carmel U. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151

Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7115

Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (2), 223-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6953

Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6552

What Happened to God's Time? The Evolution of Secularism and Hours of Work in America, Evidence from Religious Holidays

Fernando A. Lozano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6421

Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Economics and Politics, 2015, 26 (1), 79-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6384

Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants' Religiosity' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:23. A different revised version published as 'Immigration-Religiosity Intersections at the Two Sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States' in: Constant A. and Zimmermann K. (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, 2013, Eward Elgar Publishing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6122

"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 121-122, 121-160

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6114

The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5787

Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773

Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5724

Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures

Mariya Aleksynska, Barry R. Chiswick

published as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 563-598; reprinted in: The Economics of Cultural Diversity, 2015, edited by Peter Nijkamp et al.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5716

Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh

Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 873-888

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5215

Religion and Child Health

Barry R. Chiswick, Donka M. Mirtcheva

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5184

Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Bernard M. S. van Praag, Dmitri Romanov, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (6), 1008-1020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5142

Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis

Randall K. Q. Akee, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Melanie Khamis

published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing: 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5068

How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 646-662

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5024

School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4980

The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Ronen Bar-El, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Yossef Tobol

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 1129-1174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4904

Egalitarian Religion and Economics

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Lighthouse Economic Review 1:1, June 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4902

The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion

Paul Frijters, Juan D. Barón

published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 116-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4868

Economics and Religion

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Rhona C. Free (ed.), 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications: 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4597

Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Nauro F. Campos, Ahmad Saleh, Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev

published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (2),129-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590

The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4459

Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4446

Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2013, 176(4), 907–929

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4089

Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3) , 589-635

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4067

Religion and Intimate Partner Violence in Chile: Macro- and Micro-Level Influences

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Vivian L. Lehrer, Ramona Krauss

published in: Social Science Research, 2009, 38(3), 635-643

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3915

Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany

Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner

published in: Journal of Positive Psychology, 2010, 5 (1), 73-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3837

Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 777–805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3818

"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(546), F229-F255

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3636

The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind

James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (1), 234-235

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3251

Unravelling Secularization: An International Study

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

revised version, published as: 'Determinants of Disaffiliation: An International Study', in: Religions, 2013, 4(1), 166-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2977

Young People’s Attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander, Jonas Otterbeck

published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2010, 33 (3), 404 - 425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2886

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2822

On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Nauro F. Campos, Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2007, 51(3), 620-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2350

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Laura V Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2301

The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity

Barry R. Chiswick, Jidong Huang

published in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008, 47 (4), 694-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2192

Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Is Fertility Indeed Related to Religiosity? A Note on: 'Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999' ' in: Population Studies, 2007, 60 (2), 219-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2183

Intergenerational Transmission of 'Religious Capital': Evidence from Spain

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Shoshana Neuman

published in: Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 2011, 69 (3), 649-677 in English

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1456

An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 449-467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1399

Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain

Alicia Adsera

published in: Population Studies, 2006, 60 (2), 205-221