and efficiency across society as a whole. Agency-cost theory recognizes that incentive conflicts and coordination problems … one sector of society at the expense of another. Each rationale sets different goals and assigns responsibiliy for …

Throughout the Western world, people's policy views are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. This …

cultural heterogeneity, the world's geographical fragmentation by ethic and religious traits, at any given time. Finally, the …

between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … nationally representative samples to study the correlates of religion within and between more than 140 countries using more than …

Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values … religion adherence classified into eight major types. In a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, the frequency …" religion. Empirical findings for a panel of countries accord with several hypotheses: religious-conversion rates are positively …

For 188 independent countries in 2000, 72 had no state religion in the years 2000, 1970, and 1900; 58 had a state … religion at all three dates; and 58 had some kind of transition. Among the 58 transitional countries, 12 had two transitions, 4 … of which (former Soviet Republics in Asia) involved two forms of state religion. The probability of having a state …