Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
The Israeli Ultra-Orthodox population doubles each seventeen years. With 60 % of prime aged males attending Yeshiva rather than working, that community is rapidly outgrowing its resources. Why do fathers with families in poverty choose Yeshiva over work? Draft deferments subsidize Yeshiva attendanc...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass
Oxford Univ. Press
August 1998
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The quarterly journal of economics
Year: 1998, Volume: 115, Issue: 3, Pages: 905-953 |
| Series/Journal: | NBER working paper series
no. w6715 |
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