and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people’s economic attitudes. Much of the … institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …, differentiating on whether a religion is dominant in a country. We find that on average, religious beliefs are associated with ‘good …

but the top decile were associated with increased firewood collections, contrary to the Poverty-Environment hypothesis; (b …

waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …

cities if the share of votes to religious-political parties increases, suggesting that religion--either through individual …

that endowed them with trading skills demanded all over the world. Fourth, the Jews generated a voluntary diaspora by … in the East. Fifth, the majority of world Jewry (about one million) lived in the Near East when the Mongol invasions in …

environment. In a fidelity family environment, instead, kinship can occur in equilibrium and, when it does, it is efficiency … virtually all major world religions are centered around the importance of the family. …