present paper reinvestigates this relationshipusing a broader measure of religiosity than church attendance and calculating a …Iannaccone’s (1991) seminal paper assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. Ina competitive market … with high religious diversity the level of overall religiosity should increase. TheSecularization Hypothesis suggests that …

While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion oneconomic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts thedecision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion onthe decision … paper finds that religion shapesthe entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam andChristianity …

sketching some further implications of these ideas for thestudy of religion and ritual... …

interdicteddiffers from the racial composition of the population. Incarceration rates are definedto be racially “fair” if the racial …

fewer than 200,000 inhabitants – in particular those located outside metropolitanareas – suffer population losses due to … since 2005 and is ageing rapidly, most dramatically in remoteareas. In the first part, this paper traces the population … population decline.... …

population. The age composition of the labor force has also changed dramatically, often accompanied by sharp reductions in the …