Is God in the details? A reexamination of the Role of Relegion in Economic

Steven Durlauf, Andros Kourtelos and Chih Ming Tan

University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics from University of Cyprus Department of Economics

Abstract: Barro and McCleary (2003) is a key research contribution in the new literature exploring the macroeconomic effects of religious beliefs. This paper represents an effort to evaluate the strength of their claims. We evaluate their results in terms of replicability and robustness. While we find that their analysis meets the standard of statistical replicability, we do not find that the results are robust to changes in their baseline statistical specification. Taken together, we conclude that their analysis cannot be taken to provide useable evidence on how religion might affect aggregate outcomes.

Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2006-09
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