This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …

empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the …

Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We … contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the relationship between religion and cooperation …. We analyze newly available, experimentally validated, and globally representative data on social preferences and world …

waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …