religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of …

. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior …Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically … – both in family size and in the spacing of births – has changed. While in the 1985 SFS family size was similar among …

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to …

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to …

religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of …

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

This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and … and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on … Gary Becker?s contributions to the economics of the family, religious affiliation is seen to affect these outcomes because …

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …