empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II …

This paper attempts to explain several empirical findings regarding religion. The main one is between religion and the …

This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion does insure against some adverse life events. All denominations suffer … results do not seem to come about from the endogeneity of religion. These patterns in subjective well-being correspond to data …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (countryspecific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

. This provides a Weber-type channel relating religion to socio-economic outcomes. …

This paper examines how two dimensions of childhood religion affiliation and participation are related to the … relationships between religion and high school graduation are similar for the two racial groups. …

Religion as a determinant of individuals’ behavior has only recently found its way in the economic literature. In this … analysis, four waves of ISSP-data covering the time between 1991 and 2002 are used to examine the relationship between religion … attitudes and that those attitudes are negatively associated with female labor participation. Beyond that, religion has only …

paper I highlight results from recent studies on the role of religion in these and related economic and demographic …

: Religion 2 (ISSP) provides the data base. It includes information on maternal/paternal/own mass participation when the …