deontological moral reminder ("corruption is immoral") leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …

identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation … the private sector. On average, corruption increases the size of the public sector, although the public output received by … society is identical in both public sector jobs. …

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 …