TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bénabou, Roland
A1  - Ticchi, Davide
A1  - Vindigni, Andrea
PB  - American Economic Association
SP  - 346
Y1  - 2015/05//
JF  - American Economic Review
IS  - 5
VL  - 105
SN  - 0002-8282
N2  - 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.
AV  - none
TI  - Religion and innovation
KW  - JEL codes: O31
KW  -  O34
KW  -  Z12 - Keywords: Intellectual property
KW  -  Religion
KW  -  Cultural economics
KW  -  Innovation


UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.p20151032
ID  - eprints2692
EP  - 351
ER  -