includes survey information over the last 20 years on church attendance and an array of religious beliefs. Although religiosity … declines overall with economic development, the nature of the response varies with the dimension of development. Church … attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion …

last 20 years on church attendance and religious beliefs. In accordance with the secularization view, overall economic … of the interaction varies with the dimension of development. For example, religiosity is positively related to education …

, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

indeed causal by investigating the introduction of universal primary education in Nigeria. Exploiting differences by region …The literature generally points to a negative relationship between female education and fertility. Citing this pattern … and social welfare in developing countries. This paper tests whether the relationship between fertility and education is …

Governments have used vouchers to spend billions of dollars on private education; much of this spending has gone to … church closures and mergers. Despite these results, we fail to find evidence that vouchers promote religious behavior …: voucher expansion causes significant declines in church donations and church spending on non-educational religious purposes …

citizens. The sale of private chapels within churches to individuals was a significant source of church funds, and facilitated … a church construction boom. Chapel sales offered three benefits to churches: prices were usually far above cost; donor …/purchasers purchased masses and other tie-in services; and they added to the magnificence of the church because donors were required to …

We combine a new dataset of weekly Catholic church donations with a new dataset of presidential-election campaign stops … appear to vary based on the political language used by the parish in its own church bulletins. However, the effect does …

The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …