Catholics versus Protestants: On the Benefit Incidence of Faith-Based Foreign Aid

Bengtsson, Niklas

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“…existing practices, NGOs alter the set of costs associated with investments in welfare-improving technologies-and, indeed, of participating in environmental, health, and development interventions more broadly. Recent work has looked at the roles NGOs play in enhancing monitoring and enforcement (Aldashev et al, 2015;Grant and Grooms, 2017); improving public-service delivery (Devarajan et al, 2013); and working with heterogeneous beneficiaries (Bengtsson, 2013).…”

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NGOs and the Effectiveness of Interventions

Usmani

Jeuland

Pattanayak

2024

Review of Economics and Statistics

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Programs implemented by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often more effective than comparable efforts by other actors, yet relatively little is known about how implementer identity drives final outcomes. By combining a stratified field experiment in India with a tripledifferences estimation strategy, we show that a local development NGO's prior engagement with target communities increases the effectiveness of a technology-promotion program implemented in these areas by at least 30 percent. This “NGO reputation effect” has implications for the generalizability and scalability of evidence from experimental research conducted with local implementation partners.

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Section: Ngos Transaction Costs and Household Decision-makingmentioning

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NGOs and the Effectiveness of Interventions

Usmani

Jeuland

Pattanayak

2024

Review of Economics and Statistics

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“…Moreover, it is questionable whether faith‐inspired schools treat pupils from different religions similarly. In Tanzania, for example, Bengtsson () finds that an educational program run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church favors Protestants over Catholics. Meyersson () compares Turkish municipalities where Islamic parties have won elections with those where secular parties have won and finds increased secular education—particularly for women—under religious rule.…”

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The Multidimensional Effects of Religion on Socioeconomic Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Basedau

Gobien

Prediger

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Religion plays a fundamental role in most people's lives with profound implications for socioeconomic development. This survey provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the causal mechanisms between religion and development discussed and tested in the economics literature, and reviews quantitative empirical evidence on the actual effects of religion on economic and social dimensions of development. We start by disaggregating the concept of religion into four religious dimensions and propose a framework to conceptualize causal mechanisms. Numerous mechanisms are possible but only a few uncontested findings exist. Religion is ambivalent vis-à-vis development: although religious ideas can foster certain forms of human capital acquisition and labor market participation, scholars have found a negative relationship between religious dimensions and both income and gender equality as well as innovation activities. Religious identity is also a source of labor market discrimination and has ambivalent effects on economic growth and social cohesion. Methodological challenges refer to the availability of fine-grained data, especially for developing countries, the use of concepts and definitions, and the lack of causal inference.

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“…Faith–based NGOs are often the organizations that carry out religious development. A literature has emerged highlighting different elements of these complex and often transnational religious organizations (see, e.g., Bengtsson ; Clarke ; Jeavons ). But analysis of faith–based NGOs has drawn only lightly from streams of organizational theory that non–religion–related scholarship on NGOs has utilized, including organizational ecology (Watkins, Swidler, and Hannan ), the world polity perspective (Boli and Thomas ), and cultural network analysis (Keck and Sikkink ; Mische , ).…”

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Religion, Poverty, and Development

Offutt

Probasco

Vaidyanathan

2016

Scientific Study of Religion

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This article serves two purposes. First, it introduces the forum that follows in this issue on religion and development. Second, it serves as a review of the small but quickly growing literature on how religion interacts with efforts by (often religious) people and organizations to ameliorate poverty worldwide. We address the need to define both “religion” and “development” with clarity and precision. We also call for further research in this area by sociologists, particularly at a time when the landscape of development practice is shifting, from changes in funding sources and priorities to competition between religious and secular organizations.

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Catholics versus Protestants: On the Benefit Incidence of Faith-Based Foreign Aid

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

NGOs and the Effectiveness of Interventions

NGOs and the Effectiveness of Interventions

The Multidimensional Effects of Religion on Socioeconomic Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Religion, Poverty, and Development

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