Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious … measure with traditional data, we show how it can shed light on the nature of religious adherence in Islamic societies …. Exploiting random variation in climate, we find that as economic conditions in Afghanistan worsen, people become more religiously …