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Exploring the causal effect of religious piety on dividend policy: evidence from historical religious identification

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  • Pandej Chintrakarn
  • Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard
  • Pornsit Jiraporn
  • Young S. Kim

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Theory suggests that religious piety is associated with greater risk aversion and more conservative financial policies. Returns to shareholders through dividends are much more certain than returns through capital gains expected to be realized far into the future. We hypothesize that religious piety leads to a higher likelihood of dividend payments. We exploit the variation in religious piety across the US counties and estimate the effect of religion on dividend policy. To draw a causal inference, we use historical religious piety in 1971 as the instrument. Our two-stage least squares results confirm that religious piety induces firms to pay larger dividends.

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  • Pandej Chintrakarn & Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard & Pornsit Jiraporn & Young S. Kim, 2019. "Exploring the causal effect of religious piety on dividend policy: evidence from historical religious identification," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 306-310, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:26:y:2019:i:4:p:306-310
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1467550
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