Religion and income: Heterogeneity between countries

Bettendorf, Léon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.02.003

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“…2012;Young 2009). Moreover, Bettendorf and Dijkgraaf (2010) show that the relationship be- Other studies claim that the results depend on the religious ideas attributed to a specific religious tradition. Islam has long been seen as a hindrance for growth (Noland 2005) due to its prohibition on charging interest and its instructions concerning charitable giving.…”

Section: Poverty Income and Growthmentioning

confidence: 89%

The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

2017

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Section: Poverty Income and Growthmentioning

confidence: 89%

The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

2017

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“…Ager et al, 2014;LeMay-Boucher et al, 2013;Stifel et al, 2011. Bettendorf andDijkgraaf (2010) for instance find that church membership and other measures of religiosity have different effects on income for high-and low-income households within countries. Hence, the current evidence base does not seem to allow us to draw any general conclusions about the impact of culture on household and individual food access through its effects on income.…”

Section: Access and Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

Culture and food security

Alonso

Cockx

Swinnen

2018

Global Food Security

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This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and choice, utilization, and stability). Although there is large heterogeneity in the size and breadth of available evidence, with research often biased toward high-come countries, it is clear that how and why we obtain, process, prepare, and eat food is influenced by culture in various ways. In addition, gender, family, and decision-making power play a critical role in the impact of culture. The dynamics of culture as well as the magnitude and relative importance of cultural effects in the context of food security are still poorly understood. Nevertheless, there remains ample scope for improving food security policy by taking culture better into account.

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“…An unclear conceptualization is often followed by an incorrect operationalization of the religious variable, sometimes confusing the religious dimensions, for instance, of identity and ideas or beliefs. For example, studies interested in examining how religious ideas about work ethic affect economic growth often use country shares of people with specific religious identities rather than measures of particular beliefs on work, which would better reflect the real topic of interest (e.g., Hillmann, ; Bettendorf and Dijkgraf, ). The discrepancy between the specific research question and the operationalization of variables occurs within most subthemes of the broader literature on religion and development and is partly due to a lack of appropriate data .…”

Section: Review Of Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the validity of the instruments that Barro and McCleary () use has been questioned, and their results are not robust to the use of model‐averaging methods that account for model uncertainty (e.g., Young, ; Durlauf et al ., ). Moreover, Bettendorf and Dijkgraaf () show that the relationship between religion (measured by church membership) and income is positive in high‐income countries, but negative in low‐income countries. Possible explanations for this heterogeneity range from differences between high‐ and low‐income countries in utility functions, opportunity costs for time devoted to religious activities, and the importance of traditional values, for example, with respect to women's participation in the labor market (Bettendorf and Dijkgraaf, ).…”

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The Multidimensional Effects of Religion on Socioeconomic Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Basedau

Gobien

Prediger

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Religion plays a fundamental role in most people's lives with profound implications for socioeconomic development. This survey provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the causal mechanisms between religion and development discussed and tested in the economics literature, and reviews quantitative empirical evidence on the actual effects of religion on economic and social dimensions of development. We start by disaggregating the concept of religion into four religious dimensions and propose a framework to conceptualize causal mechanisms. Numerous mechanisms are possible but only a few uncontested findings exist. Religion is ambivalent vis-à-vis development: although religious ideas can foster certain forms of human capital acquisition and labor market participation, scholars have found a negative relationship between religious dimensions and both income and gender equality as well as innovation activities. Religious identity is also a source of labor market discrimination and has ambivalent effects on economic growth and social cohesion. Methodological challenges refer to the availability of fine-grained data, especially for developing countries, the use of concepts and definitions, and the lack of causal inference.

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Religion and income: Heterogeneity between countries

Cited by 49 publications

References 22 publications

The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

The Ambivalent Role of Religion for Sustainable Development: A Review of the Empirical Evidence

Culture and food security

The Multidimensional Effects of Religion on Socioeconomic Development: A Review of the Empirical Literature

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