Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …

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 …

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

This paper uses a new database to establish two findings covering the first globalization boom before World War I, the … second since World War II, and the autarkic interlude in between. First, there is strong evidence supporting a Tariff …-Growth Paradox: protection was associated with fast growth before World War II, while it was associated with slow growth thereafter …