German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …

Using data from approximately 11,000 individuals in 14 different OECD regions, we find that culture, as expressed by …

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …

religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …

recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …