economics, psychology, policy

There has been a lot of work in recent years by economists on the determinants of people’s well-being. Many of these determinants are not ...

Once upon a time, and it probably wasn’t that long ago, young people in Ireland went to church because thats what people did. But the posi...

Being able to trust people is important. Yet dishonesty is pervasive. In Dan Ariely 's Predictably Irrational book he describes this a...

Further to Liam's post below on religion and savings, here is an earnings equation with denomination using the SHARE data. Catholics fa...

Economic Logic blog points to the following paper on religion and savings. “Striving for Savings” – religion and individual economic behavi...

Recently my thoughts turned to God, well religion. The fact that I was high in the sky (literally and neither metaphorically nor narcoticall...

1. A new report from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training: " The skill matching challenge: Analysing skill mi...

This is a nice piece discussing work by Barro & McCleary on religion and growth http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11...

An interesting take on the religion as insurance theme in the Irish Independent newspaper link here

Stumbling and Mumbling blog pick up on the Angus Deaton religion paper link here A link to the paper is below. As said in the conclusions, ...

A while back there were blog entry by me about a report released by the Iona Institute & written by Patricia Casey regarding the associa...