conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an … populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …

variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church donations and …

The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … canonization. We analyze determinants of rates of beatification and canonization (for non-martyrs) over time and across six world … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …

We analyze the impact of financial globalization on business cycle synchronization utilizing a proprietary database on …

the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the … the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for …

that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …