A brief survey of the project
(1) An Essay on the Religious Transition. Latest update June 2023
Papers on cross-country data and theory
(2) The religious transition. A long-run perspective
Public Choice 156, 105-123, 2013
With Erich Gundlach,
GIGA IAS and Hamburg University, Germany
Online appendix to the regious transition
(3) An model of the religious transition
Theoretical Economics Letters 2012, 419-22
With Erich Gundlach,
GIGA IAS and Hamburg University, Germany
A theoretical explanation of the religious transition
linking it to the theory of economic growth.
Background papers on present Danish data
(4) Church density and the church membership ratio.
The cross-municipal pattern in Denmark, 2nd version 2013
(5) The present churches: Age and size distribution
The data as an Excel file
Papers on Danish long-run time series data
Danish church data on separate page
(6) The political economy of churches in Denmark, 1300-2015 Public Choice 172(3-4), 443-63, 2017 With Ella Paldam
(7) An economic perspective on the Reformation and the downscaling of the Church in Denmark, 1450-1650 Munich Social Social Science Review 7, 5-28, 2024
(8) The Religious Transtion: Denmark 1750-2015
With Ella Paldam
Previous version presented at the SSSR conference at Newport Beach, LA, 2015,
Present version February 2017
New paper from corruption project
(9) Can democracy and religiosity explain corruption?
An empirical survey of cross country data
First version. January 2024
See also:
Papers on the Grand Transition for papers on the Grand Transition