otherwise would be very puzzling differences in the age of appointment across religions and within a particular religion …

This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique … German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our …

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

This paper uses data available from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) survey on religious attitudes and …

Studies of the relationship between religion and economics can be divided into three major lines of research …: behavioural economics of religion (microeconomic approach), macroeconomic consequences of religion and religious explanations of … households that economic behaviour and outcome correlate with religion. Furthermore the role of religion on the macroeconomic …

. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we then characterize conditions under which a temporary decline in social mobility … produces a large and long-lasting rise in religious participation. Religion in our model helps to cope with loss, which occurs …

religion is a moderator of time preference across potential investments, including: savings, social capital, and human capital … indicate that differences in time preferences, rather than idiosyncratic attitudes toward education, account for differential …