The economic origins of the evil eye belief

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Vol/Iss. 110 Published In Pages: 119-144
By Gershman, Boris

Hypothesis

In weakly institutionalized traditional societies in which the evil eye belief is not indigenous, evil eye beliefs will be associated with spatial diffusion via cultural contact.

Note

Table 1

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
RegressionSupportedUNKNOWNR-squared = .41UNKNOWN