to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The … supply of religion declines once churches lose control over the institutions providing collective goods like education …

to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The … supply of religion declines once churches lose control over the institutions providing collective goods like education …

Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography … corruption just as well as do actual incomes. This result demonstrates that the long-run causality is entirely from income to … corruption. Hence, there is a Corruption Transition: As countries get rich, corruption vanishes. …