To estimate the long-term, persistent effects of missionary education requires two strong assumptions: that mission station settlement is uncorrelated with other economic variables, such as soil quality and access to markets, and 2) that selection into (and out of) mission stations is...

В статье исследован такой неэкономический фактор, как религия, которая является частью культурного наследия, пронизанного морально-этическими принципами,...

This article focuses on the impact of religious institutions on entrepreneurship. We find clear evidence that different religious institutions have a significantly different impact on the tendency to become an entrepreneur. Our article makes important contributions to the research of both...

This essay addresses the question of what happened when the Adam Smith problem of industrializing Europe met the faculty psychology of antebellum America. Although it was not called the Adam Smith problem until the late nineteenth century, the fact that Smith wrote two books instead of one has...

In this paper the non-economic factors such as religion, is part of the cultural heritage, which is riddled with moral-ethical principles, intertwined with religious dogma. We prove that the moral climate in society due to a set of rules and regulations prevailing in it, and give advice on...