This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …

development of social norms, and suggests that religion and family organization are potential mediators. It turns out that many …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most … corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross …-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception …

indicator for prosecutorial independence based on data from the World Justice Project to answer these questions. We find that … of prosecutorial corruption. For police officers, we find that prosecutorial independence is not decisive, but … prosecutorial corruption matters for whether suspected misconduct is likely to be prosecuted. …

hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular kind of crime, namely corruption. In order to test it, it was … show that de facto independence of prosecution agencies robustly reduces corruption of officials. -- Corruption …

rule of law. It is further argued that judicial accountability can increase per capita income through various channels one … of which is the reduction of corruption. First tests concerning the economic effects of JA are carried out drawing on the … absence of corruption within the judiciary as well as data gathered by the U.S. State Department as proxies. On the basis of …