In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

is a significant and robust negative relationship between religiosity and patents per capita. The political-economy model … knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity … stagnation, extreme religiosity with no modernization effort, and high public spending on religious public goods. In-between is a …

more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents …

, bargaining behaviour and sense of fairness/equality, trust, and positive reciprocity. Three dimensions of religiosity are … examined: (i) religious denomination; (ii) the intensity of religiosity, measured by active participation at church services … with a “standard” religious denomination; (ii) among Catholics, intensity of religiosity is the key variable that affects …