dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … important day of Ramadan (the Night of Power) and a day outside Ramadan, we find that Ramadan overall has a small and negative …

This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in …

. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … context of lower church participation, religiosity has acquired a more relevant meaning for demographic behavior. Among the …

overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported …

the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …

.e. Ramadan fasting and festival overspending, this paper summarizes our current knowledge, especially the contribution from …

individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural … administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … poor labor market outcomes later in life. Specifically, exposure to Ramadan in the 7th month of gestation results in a …

, but almost no impact on urban and suburban areas. I use a difference-in-difference methodology and find that religiosity … agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper … who are not. I hypothesize that the increased religiosity results from religious institutions' ability to provide public …

, religious pluralism, religious freedom, and societal attitudes towards religion are important predictors of religiosity. These …-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on … average, religiosity of immigrants is higher than that of the native born, even among those without a religious affiliation …

attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of …Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church … religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious than men; religious activity increases with age; there is a …