This paper 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 … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion …, affirmative action, environmental protection, foreign aid, health care, military, border control, and law enforcement. Moreover …

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … proxied by a country s dominant religion seems to be related to inequality. But in addition, in Judeo-Christian societies …

have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation …-representative data sets from India. Across all three data sets, the unconditional religion-specific gap in latrine ownership and latrine …. Further, the estimates do not show evidence of religion-specific differences in other sanitation practices, such as …

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …