threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values …

literature: corruption may affect a country's composition of capital inflows in a way that makes it more likely to experience a …

Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social … determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems ináuence … corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the literature, by relating corruption to dierent features of the electoral system …

blacks but smaller effects for whites. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that religion provides an …

Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but there is relatively little study by economists of … market density, or the share of the population in an area which is of an individual's religion. I make use of the fact that …

regularly. Using data from across the world and within the U.S., we indeed find a non-monotonic relationship between religious …

Turkey, which is a predominantly Muslim country, enacted an education law in 1997 which increased the compulsory … of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political preferences by using exposure to the law as an instrument for … stronger effects on women. An increase in education, generated by exposure to the law, decreases women's propensity to identify …