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 …

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

institution embedded in the Voodoo religion and a recent secular institution in the form of fishing committees. Using household …

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 …

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

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