TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bénabou,Roland
AU  - Ticchi,Davide
AU  - Vindigni,Andrea
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Religion and Innovation
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - March 2015; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control for all standard socio-demographics as well as country, year and denomination fixed effects.  Across the fifty-two estimated specifications, greater religiosity is almost uniformly and very significantly associated to less favorable views of innovation
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21052
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21052
ER  -