Recent years have seen increasing interest in economic analyses of religion. We carry out a critical review of … Economics of Religion (EoR) in this review essay. We find that on the one hand EoR has made a significant contribution to … enhance our understanding of secular trappings of religion and to break the stranglehold of non-rational approach to religion …

Catholics, Protestants and non-believers, those of Eastern Orthodox religion have less social capital and prefer old ideas and … that communist elites sought to eradicate church-going in Eastern Europe, since communists maintained many aspects of …

. Secondly, we examine the extent to which religion-induced heterogeneity in risk-taking preferences actually influences …

secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant church attendance in German cities … negatively related to church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes … reduced church attendance. …

secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant church attendance in German cities … negatively related to church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes … reduced church attendance. …

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within … is a strong predictor for church attendance. Economic variables only weakly account for some of the variation inasmuch as …

In this paper I consider how individuals allocate their time between church attendance (and other religious activities … the intuitive-believing cognitive style. They may continue to attend church but do so less frequently than intuitive … believers. In general equilibrium, there exists a locally stable steady state where believing and frequent church attendance is …

-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving … church and nonchurch members. We find crowding in between the church tax and charitable giving for church members, but not … for the church-leavers. In contrast to church members, donations of church-leavers and non-members are also highly …

secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant church attendance in German cities … related to church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced church …