based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as … is a significant and robust negative relationship between religiosity and patents per capita. The political-economy model …

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

religions and costs of having one's religion deviate from the type viewed as ideal. The International Social Survey Programme … (ISSP) waves for 1991, 1998, 2008, and 2018 allow for calculations of country-wide conversion rates based on religion … analysis applies to 8 types of religion for 58 countries (125 total observations). The rate of conversion depends positively on …

prediction in an original data set of whether ethnic groups around the world traditionally prayed for rain. We find that prayer …

For 188 independent countries in 2000, 72 had no state religion in the years 2000, 1970, and 1900; 58 had a state … religion at all three dates; and 58 had some kind of transition. Among the 58 transitional countries, 12 had two transitions, 4 … of which (former Soviet Republics in Asia) involved two forms of state religion. The probability of having a state …

have smaller welfare-state programs and less corruption. Other results present puzzles for future research: the adjustment …

literature: corruption may affect a country's composition of capital inflows in a way that makes it more likely to experience a …

Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social … determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems ináuence … corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the literature, by relating corruption to dierent features of the electoral system …

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … open economy' as determined by its size and geography would devote more resources to building good institutions and would … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …