This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context … of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct … by economists such as incentive compatibility are particularly appropriate for studying the effect of religion on …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between religiosity and labour market outcomes. Design …; considers the impact of the degree of religiosity using a composite index constructed by means of survey questions; and uses … correlation between religiosity and earnings is found controlling for demographic, behavioural and human capital variables …

. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional … countries, that religiosity is negatively related to our institutional outcome variables. This only holds in democracies (not … autocracies), which suggests that religiosity affects the way institutions work through the political process. Individual …

We look at the effect of importance of religion in daily life on social trust, defined as the share of a population … 43 U.S. states. Our empirical results indicate a robust, negative relationship between this measure of religiosity and …