This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history,
covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly …

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey
serves two purposes—it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological …

We evaluate causal impacts of a large‐scale agricultural extension program for smallholder
women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression …

Abstract The Protestant Reformation is one of the defining events of the last millennium.
Nearly 500 years after the Reformation, its causes and consequences have seen a renewed …

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more
primitive of the two and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and …

We study the effect of culture on financial literacy by comparing secondary-school students
along the German–French language border within Switzerland. We find that students in the …

We study the causal impact of religiosity through a randomized evaluation of an evangelical
Protestant Christian values and theology education program delivered to thousands of …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human
capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of …

This paper investigates in a large and heterogeneous sample the relationship between
social preferences and political attitudes. Social preferences relate to political attitudes in a …

Unemployment varies across space and in time. Can attitudes toward work explain some of
these differences? We study job search durations along the Swiss language border, sharply …