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Title: Religious, Civil, and Economic Freedoms: What's the Chicken and What's the Egg?
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Publication Year: 2021
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3833196
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Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between religious liberty and economic freedom. First, three new facts emerge: (a) religious liberty has increased since 1960, but has slipped substantially over the past decade; (b) the countries that experienced the largest declines in religious liberty tend to have greater economic freedom, especially property rights; (c) changes in religious liberty are associated with changes in the allocation of time to religious activities. Second, using a combination of vector autoregressions and dynamic panel methods, improvements in religious liberty tend to precede economic freedom. Finally, increases in religious liberty have a wide array of spillovers that are important determinants of economic freedom and explain the direction of causality. Countries cannot have long-run economic prosperity and freedom without actively allowing for and promoting religious liberty.
Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3833196
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Authors: Makridis, Christos
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