This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …

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 …

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of … economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers' demand for religion. It then shows how this demand affects …

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

Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …: whether there is a religious affiliation (and what kind), the importance of religion, and the frequency of church attendance …

This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and … within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …