http://thesocietypages.org/citings/2009/11/17/satan-the-great-motivator/ Scanning the journals and tracking the media for the best in cutting edge social science, served up in a concise, snappy style. Edited by students in the undergraduate and graduate sociology programs at the University of Minnesota. Sun, 20 May 2012 15:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://thesocietypages.org/citings/2009/11/17/satan-the-great-motivator/#comment-606 Conrad Hackett Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:37:33 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/crawler/?p=1217#comment-606 It would be appropriate to mention Cristobal Young's recent ASR article in this context: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asoca/asr/2009/00000074/00000003/art00003 From the abstract: "I demonstrate this using the work of Barro and McCleary on religion and economic growth. Small, sensible changes in their model specification produce large changes in the results: the results are inconsistent across time, and the instrumental variables strategy suffers from a weak instrument set. Also, the observed relationship between religiosity and economic growth does not hold in the West; it is largely a feature of Asian and African countries and of countries whose data is poor quality." It would be appropriate to mention Cristobal Young’s recent ASR article in this context: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asoca/asr/2009/00000074/00000003/art00003
From the abstract: “I demonstrate this using the work of Barro and McCleary on religion and economic growth. Small, sensible changes in their model specification produce large changes in the results: the results are inconsistent across time, and the instrumental variables strategy suffers from a weak instrument set. Also, the observed relationship between religiosity and economic growth does not hold in the West; it is largely a feature of Asian and African countries and of countries whose data is poor quality.”

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