Economic Attitudes and Religion

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Economic Attitudes and Religion
Original language description
This paper investigates, using individual data from the World Values Survey, the impact of religion on attitudes considered conducive to economic growth and usually with a pronounced advantage for Protestants. To isolate the effect of religion from othereffects, socio-demographic controls and country specific effects are included in all regressions. The paper contributes to the research by: (1) including more Muslim countries, giving different results to previous studies such as (Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales, 2002); (2) evaluating the differences between Protestant and other religions and thus not depending on unspecified group of people without religion; (3) including new attitudes like determination or confidence in major companies that have not been emphasized yet. The results of my analyses fail to prove a strong correlation between Protestants and others in attitudes that promote economic growth. This is in contrast to results of previous studies, which base their analyses only o
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference "ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER COUNTRIES"
ISBN
978-80-248-3796-3
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Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
88-98
Publisher name
Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava
Place of publication
Ostrava
Event location
Ostrava
Event date
Sep 2, 2015
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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