While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …

among these religion sub groups has not been forthcoming. The ‘Census 2001', for the first time, published different … demographic information on the basis of religion sub-groups. Using that gold mine data set, this paper describes the spatial …. Significant CWR variations have been observed with definite regional pattern. Considering female literacy and religion identity as …

varies over time and place. We address this problem by exploiting quasi-random variation in the religion of rulers in the … religion of the ruler had no statistically significant impact on Muslim literacy, railroad ownership, or post office provision …

into either Muslim or Hindu, guaranteeing exogenous variation in religion concordance between messenger and recipient … misconceptions are observed only when there is religion concordance and mainly for religious-salient misconceptions. Correcting …