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 …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …

. Finally, the influence of negative discourses on Islam and Muslims are discussed. …

The correlation between religion and socioeconomic status is observed throughout the world. In the Middle East, local …, led to the conversion of poor Copts to Islam to avoid paying the tax, and to the shrinking of Copts to a better off …-68. Combining historical narratives with a dataset on occupations and religion in 640-1517 from the Arabic Papyrology Database, and …

. It also finds that adopting exclusivist doctrines is a dominant strategy for a religion. Possible extensions of the … framework to other issues in the economics of religion are also discussed. …

The dataset "Enqute Mode de Vie des Franais" is the first opportunity to measure the impact of religion and religiosity … assist to offices. Culture is not investigated only through the impact of religion on fertility. Indeed, I explore the …

their own religion is dominant, while Protestants are also more satisfied when Catholics dominate. The generic positive … spillover effect of others' religion is not explained by social capital, crime, or trust. …

This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion does insure against some adverse life events. All denominations suffer … results do not seem to come about from the endogeneity of religion. These patterns in subjective well-being correspond to data …