The role of religion in the development of law and order, in the progress of the government institutions and ultimately … uses structural learning algorithms capable of finding the best-fit distributions for factors linking religion to major … traits of the governance and economy. We find that the importance of religion in the society is conditionally independent …

predicting the growth pattern. The noneconomic factors like religion have been considered as having indirect role in determining … the economic development. This paper aims to analyses the role of religion in the economic development. The analysis has … been done based on GDP per capita and consumption data and on the world values survey data on religious denomination. The …

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the … institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …, differentiating on whether a religion is dominant in a country. We find that on average, religious beliefs are associated with good …