The paper examines intergenerational transmission of "religious capital" from parents to their offspring, within an economic framework of a production function of "religiosity" where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of Catholic Spaniards who grew up in Catholic households...

Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious...

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran an incentivized experiment with a large representative sample of the Spanish population. Our participants took six decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their...