. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), we show that affiliation with religion is not necessarily associated with … an increase in educational attainment. Muslim and “Other religion” immigrants have less education compared to the … immigrants who are not affiliated with any religion. However, affiliation with the Jewish religion is associated with higher …

pessimism can lead a decision maker to “convert” from one religion to another. We illustrate the theory of religious choice …

choose their religion. The application of decision theory leads us to a broad definition of religion and a particular … extremes: total ambiguity and no ambiguity. For total ambiguity, we show there is “designer religion,” which is a religion that …

choose a religion. The theory indicates agnosticism can be supported as a rational choice if (a) adopting agnosticism … provides in-life benefits relative to any religion, (b) the perceived payoff for agnosticism after death is not too much less … than any religion, (c) no religion has a high perceived likelihood of truth, (d) probability of death is neither too high …