People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes
People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes
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10.2139/ssrn.331280
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2002-08
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L. Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales
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作者：
L. Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales
自马克斯·韦伯（Max Weber）以来，人们就宗教对人们经济态度的影响展开了激烈的辩论。然而，现有的许多证据是基于跨国研究，其中这种影响被其他体制因素的差异所混淆。我们使用世界价值观调查来确定宗教信仰的强度和经济态度之间的关系，控制国家固定效应。我们研究了对合作、政府、职业妇女、法律的规则、节俭和市场经济的几种经济态度。我们还区分宗教派别，区分宗教是否在一个国家占主导地位。我们发现，平均而言，宗教信仰与“良好”的经济态度有关，其中“良好”被定义为有利于提高人均收入和增长。然而，宗教人士往往更具种族主义色彩，对职业女性不那么有利。这些影响因宗教教派而异。总的来说，我们发现基督教与有利于经济增长的态度有更积极的联系。
Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and economic attitudes, controlling for country fixed effects. We study several economic attitudes toward cooperation, the government, working women, legal rules, thriftiness, and the market economy. We also distinguish across religious denominations, differentiating on whether a religion is dominant in a country. We find that on average, religious beliefs are associated with "good" economic attitudes, where "good" is defined as conducive to higher per capita income and growth. Yet religious people tend to be more racist and less favorable with respect to working women. These effects differ across religious denominations. Overall, we find that Christian religions are more positively associated with attitudes conducive to economic growth.