This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …

religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world. -- Religion ; Islam ; Geography …This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries … systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography …

Mobility ; Openness ; Political Economy ; Beliefs ; Religion ; Immigration …

beliefs and participation, the relation between the size of the religion and the intensity of its members’ beliefs, religious … segregation and religious conflicts. -- Economics of Religion ; Religion ; Organizations ; Beliefs …