TY  - RPRT
Y1  - 2015/03//
KW  - Keywords: attitudes
KW  -  beliefs
KW  -  creativity
KW  -  culture
KW  -  dogma
KW  -  growth
KW  -  ideas
KW  -  innovation
KW  -  religion
KW  -  risk?taking
KW  -  science
KW  -  technical progress
KW  -  tolerance and values   -  JEL classification: D83
KW  -  O31
KW  -  O35
KW  -  O43
KW  -  Z1 and Z12
TI  - Religion and innovation
AV  - none
UR  - http://www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10518#
PB  - Centre for Economic Policy Research
SN  - 0265-8003
A1  - Bénabou, Roland
A1  - Ticchi, Davide
A1  - Vindigni, Andrea
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.
M1  - discussion_paper
ID  - eprints2655
EP  - 18
ER  -