Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation … religions. The association between religion and prosocial preferences is stronger in more populous societies and weaker in …

Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation … religions. The association between religion and prosocial preferences is stronger in more populous societies and weaker in …

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 …

arise from long-term processes influenced by geography, major historical events, culture, and, less commonly, religion. This … chapter reviews the available evidence to demonstrate that religion has a strong effect on formal (laws, judicial and … attitudes towards innovation. In terms of formal institutions, there is evidence of causal effects of religious doctrines on …

anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods - on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether … to study whether attitudes towards religious institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chief Rabbinate in … attitudes toward centralized forms of governance. We find strong support for the proposition that collectivist norms and an …

tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods – on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether … to study whether attitudes towards religious institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chief Rabbinate in … attitudes toward centralized forms of governance. We find strong support for the proposition that collectivist norms and an …