Hidden Costs of Prayer? How and Why Religiosity Influences the Gender Wage Gap

Religion serves as a social institution that meaningfully shapes cultures. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how religious cultures relate to different economic outcomes for men and women. We seek to clarify how cultures’ religiosity impacts the gender wage gap and to offer theoretical and empirical account of key explanatory mechanisms. Drawing from sociological theories of religion, we predict that religious cultures positively relate to...