We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

Evidence from Uganda confirms that corruption retards development even more than taxation does.Exploiting a unique data set containing information about the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms, Fisman and Svensson study the relationship between bribe payments, taxes, and firm growth in...