This website uses cookies.

By clicking the "Accept" button or continuing to browse our site, you agree to first-party and session-only cookies being stored on your device to enhance site navigation and analyze site performance and traffic. For more information on our use of cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  4. Spring 2006
  5. Religion and Economy

Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Religion and Economy

  • Rachel M. McCleary
  • Robert J. Barro
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 20, no. 2, Spring 2006
(pp. 49–72)
Download Full Text PDF
(Complimentary)

Abstract

Religion has a two-way interaction with political economy. With religion viewed as a dependent variable, a central question is how economic development and political institutions affect religious participation and beliefs. With religion viewed as an independent variable, a key issue is how religiosity affects individual characteristics, such as work ethic, honesty, and thrift, and thereby influences economic performance. In this paper, we sketch previous studies of this two-way interaction but focus on our ongoing quantitative research with international data.

Citation

McCleary, Rachel, M., and Robert J. Barro. 2006. "Religion and Economy." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20 (2): 49–72. DOI: 10.1257/jep.20.2.49

JEL Classification

  • Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
There are no comments for this article.
Login to Comment