church attendance and total factor productivity (TFP) with predictive causality running from declining church attendance to … increasing factor productivity. According to our preferred estimate, about 18% of the increase in TFP from 1950 to 1990 is caused …&D productivity is positively influenced by a reflective-analytical cognitive style, we find that secularization leads to an …

This paper compares two alternative growth paths, assessing the effects on productivity of specialisation in natural … exports either of natural resources or of technological products, and compare their role in productivity growth by GMM … estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …