real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust … market economy and democracy. Our results show that the five best ranked countries are all western democracies. Our global … torn country. The deficits suggest that the Turkish state, Turkish civil society and European decision makers would be well …

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 …

based on an empirical analysis of World Values Survey data. In recent economic theory, Carvalho (2013) maintained that … in the Muslim world are closely interrelated. Thus, it is imperative that Western Feminism develops solidarity with …

religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …

world religions. The association between religion and prosocial preferences is stronger in more populous societies and …Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation …

the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged …This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …

policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …