approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA's espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we … liberty in the sense that basic human rights like freedom of speech, freedom to express one's religious beliefs, and freedom … to form associations improve welfare. In this case, liberty is directly consumed. We argue that this improvement in …

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. …

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as …

's recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …

capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic … sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is …

, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of …