correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

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 … -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization …

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. -- Religion ; caste ; gender ; child survival …

concerns ; religion ; Ramadan ; Islam …This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … dimensions of religion - degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …

. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …