Analysis of marital fertility in rural Derry c. 1911 confirms the presence even then of a gap between Catholics and … more children than farmers. Controlling for these economic factors tends to widen the fertility gap between Catholics and …

capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

concerning ‘money’ (consumption) and happiness, as well as religion. …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three … “no religion” made decisions closer to rational selfish behaviour in the DG and the UG compared to those who affiliate … religion raised in seems to have no effect on pro-sociality, beyond the effect of the current measures of religiosity …

influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and …, we find that over the 1861-1901 period family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to …

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion- economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …