, I investigate whether the month Ramadan has any effect on food prices. I perform the analysis under two alternative … Ramadan, yet these effects are better captured when the latter is used. This highlights the importance of the calendar choice …

This study examines the relationship between religious affiliation, importance of religion, and frequency of church … were found by age and measures of religion and health. Probit analysis revealed a generally positive and statistically … significant association between religion and health, especially for the psychological health of children ages 12–15. Mitigating …

. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional … countries, that religiosity is negatively related to our institutional outcome variables. This only holds in democracies (not … autocracies), which suggests that religiosity affects the way institutions work through the political process. Individual …