IZA Discussion Papers

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