This chapter 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 …

. -- Economic development ; religion ; institutions …

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 …

. The results are robust to a number of alternative explanations. -- economic development ; literacy ; religion ; societal …

Judaism in the first half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion, and …