Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews

By Eli Berman. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York (2006, unknown): “Berman (2000) discusses the conﬂicting pressures to commit many years to study while fulﬁlling the biblical commandment to “be fruitful and multiply” by marrying young and having many children.”
Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion. (2006, background): “More or less independent literatures within economics (Berman 2000; Carr and Landa 1983; Iannaconne 1992, 1994), anthropology (Atran 2002, Atran and Norenzayan 2005), and philosophy (Bulbulia 2004a,b) have converged on what has been variously (and cumbersomely) called the club-goods model of…”
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names (2004, unknown): “Unfortunately, the father's first name is not included in the data, so a parallel analysis cannot be performed for males.”
Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence during the Indonesian Financial Crisis (2010, background): “In contrast, real wages”
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance (2005, unknown): “They find that kinship and community ties among entrepreneurs of Asian origin reduce the barriers to entry in the formal sector, so that even after accounting for differences in education, “African” firms are much more likely to be informal at start-up.(23) In addition to the advantage that the “for”
Does It Pay To Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation (2007, background): “Berman (2000) extends Iannaccone’s club-good model of religion to understand the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox community’s need for costly sacrifices to signal commitment and to exclude free riders from their network of charity and mutual insurance.”
Oppositional identities and the labor market (2007, unknown): “8 In his study about religious groups, Berman (2000) has a similar externality.”
Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment (2002, background): “Rather than manipulating monetary payoffs, this 3 Examples of this literature include Berman (2000), Bewley (2000), Cammerer, et al. (1997), Cappelli and Chauvin (1992), Encinosa, Gaynor and Rebitzer (2000), Gaynor, Rebitzer and Taylor (2001), Hall and Liebman (1998), Landers, Rebitzer and Taylor…”