productivity of pastor effort is higher. These findings shed light on factors determining the composition of religion within …

Recent studies analyzing the effects of religion on various economic, social, health and political outcomes have been … to previous studies, we find positive effects of religion on reducing all addictive substance use during adolescence, but …

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the …, differentiating on whether a religion is dominant in a country. We find that on average, religious beliefs are associated with good …