positive education-religion relationship. The negative effect of education on religious belief causes more educated individuals … to sort into less fervent religions, which explains the negative relationship between education and religion across …-country variation in the education-religion connection. These cross-country differences in the education-belief relationship can be …

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

We use a data set of federal corruption convictions in the U.S. to investigate the causes and consequences of … corruption. More educated states, and to a less degree richer states, have less corruption. This relationship holds even when we … today. The level of corruption is weakly correlated with the level of income inequality and racial fractionalization, and …

From 1870 to 1920, when corruption appears to have declined significantly within the United States, the press became … of the informative press was one of the reasons why the corruption of the Gilded Age was sharply reduced during the …

reduce corruption. How did America become a less corrupt polity, economy, and society? We review the findings and insights …The United States today, according to most studies, is among the least corrupt nations in the world. But America's past … was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt …

for public ownership came from corruption then associated with private ownership of utilities and public transportation … the firm's available cash, public firms may lead to less corruption. Public ownership is also predicted to create …

, and more broadly with the Demsetz's (1967) approach to property rights institutions. Indeed, we document world …