Christopher L. Colvin and Matthew McCracken, "Work Ethic, Social Ethic, 
No Ethic: Measuring the Economic Values of Modern Christians", Journal 
of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2017, pp. 1043-1053.


REPLICATION

Note that our study is partly a replication of the following article:

   Benito Arruņada, "Protestants and Catholics: Similar Work Ethic, Different 
   Social Ethic", Economic Journal, Vol. 120, No. 547, 2010, pp. 890-918. 
   DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02325.x


SURVEY DATA

The data used in our study are from the International Social Survey
Programme's Religion II and Religion III surveys, conducted in 1998
and 2008. 

These datasets are made available by the GESIS Data Archive for the
Social Sciences based at the Leibniz-Institut für Socialwissenschaften. 

Bibliographical references to these datasets are as follows: 

  International Social Survey Programme Research Group, "International Social 
  Survey Programme: Religion II - ISSP 1998", GESIS Data Archive, 2000. 
  DOI: 10.4232/1.3190

  International Social Survey Programme Research Group, "International Social 
  Survey Programme: Religion III - ISSP 2008", GESIS Data Archive, 2012. 
  DOI: 10.4232/1.11334

The website of the ISSP acts as a portal through which all ISSP
datasets can be accessed conveniently (http://www.issp.org/). 

Detailed codebooks specifying each survey question in all native
languages, in addition to descriptions of the survey methodology used
for all countries surveyed, are also available there.

GESIS provides the Religion II and III datasets in either Stata or
SPSS formats.

We provide these data converted from Stata into tab-delimited CSV
format, described as follows:
	
	ISSP1998.csv is the full ISSP 1998 Religion II dataset.
	
	ISSP2008.csv is the full ISSP 2008 Religion III dataset.


VARIABLE DEFINITIONS AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS

The variables used in our study are defined precisely in Table S1 of
the article's online supplementary materials. The list of countries
and religious denominations used are in the main text of the article
(see nn. 9, 10, 11 and 12).

The regression analysis was performed on an Apple Mac using Stata
version 11.2.

Our variables can be defined and analysis replicated by following the
steps outlined in a series of Stata do files, described as follows:

  1998calvinist.do -- defines the variables and replicates the
  analysis for the strict Calvinist definition of Protestantism using
  the ISSP 1998 dataset.

  1998broad.do -- defines the variables and replicates the analysis
  for the broad definition of Protestantism using the ISSP 1998
  dataset.

  2008calvinist.do -- defines the variables and replicates the
  analysis for the strict Calvinist definition of Protestantism using
  the ISSP 2008 dataset.

  2008broad.do -- defines the variables and replicates the analysis
  for the broad definition of Protestantism using the ISSP 2008
  dataset.


The four DO files and two CSV files are all ASCII files in DOS format.
They are zipped in the file cm-files.zip. Unix/Linux users should use
"unzip -a".


CONTACT DETAILS

Please address any questions regarding the replication of our study to: 

Chris Colvin
Queen's University Belfast
chris.colvin [AT] qub.ac.uk