country's legal system is more important than its religion and language in explaining shareholder rights. However, a country …'s principal religion helps predict the cross-sectional variation in creditor rights better than a country's openness to … international trade mitigates the influence of religion on creditor rights. Religion and language are also important predictors of …

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 …

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 …

Two important theories of religiosity are the secularization hypothesis and the religion-market model. According to the … depends on the presence of a state religion, regulation of the religion market, suppression of organized religion under … religion tends to increase religiosity, probably because of the subsidies that flow to organized religion. However, in …

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the … institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …, differentiating on whether a religion is dominant in a country. We find that on average, religious beliefs are associated with good …