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

Standard practice in empirical research is based on two steps: first, researchers select a
model from the space of all possible models; second, they proceed as if the selected model …

Indonesia's democratic performance is still classified as a'moderate'and'flawed
democracy'according to the latest report, even though the ongoing progress of national …

The method of model averaging has become an important tool to deal with model
uncertainty, for example in situations where a large amount of different theories exist, as are …

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 study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of
Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit …

This essay critically evaluates the analytic literature concerned with causal connections
between Islam and economic performance. It focuses on works since 1997, when this …

This article describes the BMS (Bayesian model sampling) package for R that implements
Bayesian model averaging for linear regression models. The package excels in allowing for …

Model uncertainty is one of the most pervasive challenges in the social sciences. Cross‐
country studies in entrepreneurship have largely ignored this issue. In this paper, we …

We employ a structural threshold regression methodology to investigate the heterogeneous
effects of debt on growth using public debt as a threshold variable as well as several other …