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 …

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 …

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 … government, working women, legal rules, thriftiness, and the market economy. We also distinguish across religious denominations …

threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …

Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory … of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political preferences by using exposure to the law as an instrument for … stronger effects on women. An increase in education, generated by exposure to the law, decreases women's propensity to identify …

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …