The US sugar program has long delivered significant subsidies to a concentrated group of sugar growers at the expense of American consumers. In 2013, however, an amendment in the House of Representatives attempted to seriously reduce those subsidies. The amendment narrowly lost. A similar...

In this paper, the author presents a statistical test of the hypothesis that Protestantism is positively associated with economic growth. The author also investigates whether religion can help to explain why ex-Spanish and French colonies have significantly lower economic growth than ex-British...