People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

By Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan* (2015, neutral): “Going to temples or to pilgrimages, taking time to pray or to meditate or to study sacred books, spending money on religious rituals, not working on religious days of rest: these will all take away from what is devoted to (materially) productive activities.”
Religion, Politics, and Development: Lessons from the Lands of Islam (2008, background): “From the study of Guiso et al. (2003), Protestants, Catholics, and Hindus, unlike Muslims, appear to be favorably disposed toward private ownership.”
Risk aversion and religion (2012, neutral): “An important question regarding this correlation concerns whether the relationship is driven by religious beliefs per se, or by the social effects of participation in religious institutions (see Iannaccone 1998; Liu 2010; McCleary and Barro 2006). McCleary and Barro (2006) and Barro and McCleary (20”
The "Cultural Revolution" in Finance (2015, neutral): “…a narrow definition of what constitutes the “right” way to do work in this 3 Some earlier work looked at the effect of religion on economic attitudes (Guiso, Sapienza, and Zingales, 2003) and creditors’ rights (Stulz and Williamson, 2003), as well as the effect of social capital on the use of…”
Does Local Religiosity Matter for Bank Risk-Taking? (2016, neutral): “7 Consistent with this idea, Guiso et al. (2003) find that peoplewho are raised religiously exhibit some common beliefs and preferences, even if they reject religion as adults.”
Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development and Economic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications (2013, neutral): “The correlation between religion and economic growth has been highlighted in several macrolevel contributions, such as Barro and McCleary (2003), Cavalcanti et al. (2007), and Guiso et al. (2003).1,2 How can causality be assessed with macrodata?”
Income, relational goods and happiness (2011, neutral): “F Before describing our speciﬁcation and commenting our results we share the caveats of Guiso et al. (2003) on the interpretation of ﬁndings from this cross-sectional dataset. o We agree with them that what we measure are correlations across variables, without the possibility of establishing the…”
Trust in banks (2017, methodology): “Guiso et al. (2003) observe that religious people tend to be more trusting, regardless of whether they are passive believers with a religious upbringing or actively religious. Trust is high among Catholics and even more so among Protestants. Regarding the sociodemographic variables considered as con”
Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison (2004, positive): “To investigate moral norms we introduce indicator variables for the four main religions (Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim and Protestant), which differ in their impact on moral attitudes (Guiso et al., 2003). As a country religion we use the dominant one (see Stulz and Williamson, 2001). We find that Cath”
Gender Role Attitudes and the Labour-market Outcomes of Women across OECD Countries (2005, neutral): “Views on traditional gender roles, where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman the homemaker, appear to be formed in youth and have been found to be strongly influenced by religious ideology (Thornton et al., 1983; Vella, 1994; Guiso et al., 2003; Algan and Cahuc, 2004).”