论文标题
宗教和创新态度：工具变量分析
Religiosity and Innovation Attitudes: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
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论文摘要
由于复杂性和内生性，估计宗教对创新的影响是具有挑战性的。为了解开这些问题，我们使用几种宗教信仰措施，采用个人级别的方法来创新并采用仪器变量方法。我们分析了宗教对个人态度的影响，这些态度对创新有利或不利，表现出个人的创新倾向。我们以同性，年龄范围和宗教信仰的人的平均宗教信仰来弥补一个人的宗教信仰，他们生活在具有相同宗教教派的国家。结果强烈表明，每种宗教措施对创新态度都有负面影响。诊断测试结果和灵敏度分析支持主要发现。我们提出了从宗教到创新的三个因果关系渠道：时间分配，对不确定性的恐惧以及宗教强化的常规角色。
Estimating the influence of religion on innovation is challenging because of both complexness and endogeneity. In order to untangle these issues, we use several measures of religiosity, adopt an individual-level approach to innovation and employ the instrumental variables method. We analyse the effect of religiosity on individual attitudes that are either favourable or unfavourable to innovation, presenting an individual's propensity to innovate. We instrument one's religiosity with the average religiosity of people of the same sex, age range, and religious affiliation who live in countries with the same dominant religious denomination. The results strongly suggest that each measure of religiosity has a somewhat negative effect on innovation attitudes. The diagnostic test results and sensitivity analyses support the main findings. We propose three causality channels from religion to innovation: time allocation, the fear of uncertainty, and conventional roles reinforced by religion.
