preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint … - together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue …

, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town …

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …

gender composition. -- religion ; suicide ; Prussian economic history …

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization. -- religion ; secularization …

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion- economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …

and conflict. Second, human capital often played a leading role in the interconnection between religion and economic …This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms …

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions 'trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects …