speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … worldly pleasures and aggregate productivity takes off. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant …

Katrina as our laboratory, we find a significant adverse treatment effect for plant-level productivity. However, local …

- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

"Developing countries are increasingly concerned about improving country competitiveness and productivity as they face … and imputing their impact on productivity, in order to prioritize policy reforms for enhancing competitiveness. Given the … of using different productivity measures based on data at the firm level. Their main objective is to develop a …