Economia
Religião faz bem à economia?
Muito economista confunde as coisas, né? Aposto que alguém já vai pensar em "fanáticos religiosos" dos EUA como autores desta pergunta. Bem, agora não tem jeito, tem de encarar os fatos e contra-argumentar com consistência, no mesmo terreno do autor. O texto é: Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You? e o abstract é desafiador.
Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but there is relatively little study by economists of the implications of religiosity for economic outcomes. This likely reflects the enormous difficulty inherent in separating the causal effects of religiosity from other factors that are correlated with outcomes. In this paper, I propose a potential solution to this long standing problem, by noting that a major determinant of religious participation is religious market density, or the share of the population in an area which is of an individual's religion. I make use of the fact that exogenous predictions of market density can be formed based on area ancestral mix. That is, I relate religious participation and economic outcomes to the correlation of the religious preference of one's own heritage with the religious preference of other heritages that share one's area. I use the General Social Survey (GSS) to model the impact of market density on church attendance, and micro-data from the 1990 Census to model the impact on economic outcomes. I find that a higher market density leads to a significantly increased level of religious participation, and as well to better outcomes according to several key economic indicators: higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of marriage, and lower levels of divorce.
Sim, leitor, religião, assim como o fanatismo islâmico, são "travas" morais que mudam os resultados previstos pela teoria econômica. E, se assim o é, é tarefa do economista entendê-la. Não é minha praia estudar religiões, mas as evidências empíricas são fortes...
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Um texto sobre "tamanho do governo" que me pareceu interessante: Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti† Jos´e Tavares‡ July 2004 Abstract The increase in income...
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Guardem o nome dele: ainda pode ser Nobel Laurence R. Iannaccone está na The Economist. Eu e o Ari já conhecíamos seus trabalhos de algum tempo. Aliás, parece que o Economics of Religion foi todo redesenhado. Eis um cara com boas idéias... ...
Economia
Religião faz bem à economia?
Muito economista confunde as coisas, né? Aposto que alguém já vai pensar em "fanáticos religiosos" dos EUA como autores desta pergunta. Bem, agora não tem jeito, tem de encarar os fatos e contra-argumentar com consistência, no mesmo terreno do autor. O texto é: Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You? e o abstract é desafiador.
Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but there is relatively little study by economists of the implications of religiosity for economic outcomes. This likely reflects the enormous difficulty inherent in separating the causal effects of religiosity from other factors that are correlated with outcomes. In this paper, I propose a potential solution to this long standing problem, by noting that a major determinant of religious participation is religious market density, or the share of the population in an area which is of an individual's religion. I make use of the fact that exogenous predictions of market density can be formed based on area ancestral mix. That is, I relate religious participation and economic outcomes to the correlation of the religious preference of one's own heritage with the religious preference of other heritages that share one's area. I use the General Social Survey (GSS) to model the impact of market density on church attendance, and micro-data from the 1990 Census to model the impact on economic outcomes. I find that a higher market density leads to a significantly increased level of religious participation, and as well to better outcomes according to several key economic indicators: higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of marriage, and lower levels of divorce.
Sim, leitor, religião, assim como o fanatismo islâmico, são "travas" morais que mudam os resultados previstos pela teoria econômica. E, se assim o é, é tarefa do economista entendê-la. Não é minha praia estudar religiões, mas as evidências empíricas são fortes...
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- Taxa De Participação
Taxa de participação no trabalho - um melhor indicador que a taxa de desemprego We were quite surprised by that first chart — what the hell happened to US labour force participation? But Sheets and Sockin point out that the next chart...
- Cultura E Economia E A Cultura Das Ciências Econômicas
Culture in Economics and the Culture of Economics: Raquel Fernández in Conversation with The StraddlerOn October 17, 2011, The Straddler met with Raquel Fernández at her office at NYU, where she is Professor of Economics. Fernández has been a leader...
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Política é o principal impedimento ao crescimento e desenvolvimento dos países, de acordo com o economista Daron Acemoglu e o cientista político Jim Robinson, em seu novo livro "Why Nations Fail": "From Adam Smith and Max Weber to the current day,...
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Um texto sobre "tamanho do governo" que me pareceu interessante: Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size Tiago V. de V. Cavalcanti† Jos´e Tavares‡ July 2004 Abstract The increase in income...
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Guardem o nome dele: ainda pode ser Nobel Laurence R. Iannaccone está na The Economist. Eu e o Ari já conhecíamos seus trabalhos de algum tempo. Aliás, parece que o Economics of Religion foi todo redesenhado. Eis um cara com boas idéias... ...