This paper studies rainmaking as an instrumental religious belief. The central research question is: why do people believe that prayer can bring rain, even though it does not work?
PublishedReview of Economic StudiesOnline 26 Sep 2025Published May 2026
This paper studies how Indonesia's Islamic education sector responded to one of the largest state-driven mass schooling expansions in history — the SD INPRES program (Sekolah Dasar Presidential …