Replication data for: Religion and Innovation

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Roland Bénabou; Davide Ticchi; Andrea Vindigni

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Project Citation: 

Bénabou, Roland, Ticchi, Davide, and Vindigni, Andrea. Replication data for: Religion and Innovation. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113374V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary In earlier work we identified a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states. In this paper we relate 11 indicators of individual openness to innovation (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, agency, imagination, and independence in children) to 5 measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We use five waves of the World Values Survey and control for sociodemographics, country and year fixed effects. Across the 52 regressions, greater religiosity is almost uniformly associated to less favorable views of innovation, with high significance.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms science; Religiosity; innovation attitudes
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      O31 Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
      O34 Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
      Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage World: various countries
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1980 – 2005
Universe:  View help for Universe Individuals in various countries: see World Value Survey.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes See WVS documentation available at: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source All data employed are taken from the World Value Survey Longitudinal files (1980-2005)
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Individuals,

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