Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.05.002

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“…As is standard, we use the logarithm to purchasing-power adjusted GDP per capita and openness measured as trade volumes; both variables derive from Heston, Summers, and Aten (2006). We also add social trust (Uslaner 2002, Berggren andBjørnskov 2011) and a set of dummies for three categories of legal origins, following Glaeser and…”

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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?

Berggren

Bjørnskov

2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractSocial and cultural determinants of economic institutions and outcomes have come to the forefront of economic research. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional quality in the form of property rights and the rule of law. Previous studies have only measured the impact of membership shares of different religions, with mixed results. We find, in a cross-country regression analysis comprising up to 112 countries, that religiosity is negatively related to our institutional outcome variables. This only holds in democracies (not autocracies), which suggests that religiosity affects the way institutions work through the political process. Individual religions are not related to our measure of institutional quality.

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“…20 As an offset, the government (or the socialist party) provided firms with soft budgets that in turn adversely affected incentives to be efficient or productive. 21 There is a general finding of low trust in post-communist countries (Berggren and Bjørnskov, 2011).…”

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Trust and Identity in a Small, Post-Socialist, Post-Crisis Society

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“…The latter arguably affects but does not totally determine the former. 7 See, e.g., Tabellini (2008aTabellini ( , 2010, Guiso et al (2009), Berggren and Bjørnskov (2011) and, for a survey, Férnandez (2011). 8 For a comprehensive survey documenting how parents transmit traits through socialization, see Bisin and Verdier (2011).…”

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Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance

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Nilsson

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract. Tolerance -respecting those who are different -is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the main idea being that this would equip the latter for greater success in a more integrated world. We indeed find, using a willingness-to-teach-kids-tolerance measure, that globalization enhances the willingness to transmit such social values. More precisely, economic and social, but not political, globalization has this effect, as shown by using the KOF Index of Globalization in cross-sectional and panel-data regression analyses of up to 66 countries. Addressing potential endogeneity concerns using an instrumental variables approach moreover suggests these relationships to be causal. Overall, our results confirm that certain kinds of globalization seem able to shape values in ways considered desirable by many. Terms of use: Documents in

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Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons

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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?

Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?

Trust and Identity in a Small, Post-Socialist, Post-Crisis Society

Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance

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