SUMMARY Barro and McCleary (2003, Religion and economic growth across countries.
American Journal of Sociology 68: 760–781) is a key research contribution in the new …

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth typically neglects the influence
of religion. To fill this gap, this study uses international survey data on religiosity for a broad …

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth typically neglects the influence
of religion. To fill this gap, this study uses international survey data on religiosity for a broad …

This paper investigates the relationship between religion and economic performance. In
both cross-country and within-country regressions, the null hypothesis that religious …

Religion plays a fundamental role in most people's lives with profound implications for
socioeconomic development. This survey provides a comprehensive and systematic …

More and more literature on economic growth and development has increasingly focused on
long-run effects of geographic, historical, and cultural factors on productivity and income per …

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in and controversy about the role of religion
in society. This paper reviews recent studies on the influence of religion on institutions and …

The hypothesis that the coefficients on variables of religious affiliation are jointly equal to
zero can frequently be rejected at conventional levels of statistical significance (ie, religion …

In this article, we examine the long-run relationship between religiosity and income using
retrospective data on church attendance rates for a panel of countries from 1930 to 1990 …

This paper tests whether the behaviour of households in different countries is homogeneous
with respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity …