Arbeitspapier
Religion and Growth
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 religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint literature in this way opens many interesting directions for future research.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 433
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Cultural Economics: Religion
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
Education and Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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religion
growth
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
preferences
norms
institutions
capital
saving
financial development
human capital
education
population
labor
demography
fertility
total factor productivity
technological change
rituals
political economy
conflict
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Sascha O.
Rubin, Jared
Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
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München und Berlin
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Rubin, Jared
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Entstanden
- 2023
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