We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the …. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced religiosity of …

, 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 …

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

identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further … turn induce taste-based discrimination. Religiosity may also relate to general prejudice. We test these hypotheses across … in religiosity and affiliation promote trust through beliefs of reciprocity. Religious participants also believe that …

outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet the question remains whether the link is … causal. The key issue is selection into religiosity. We exploit plausibly random variation in adolescents' peers to shift … religiosity independently of other individual-level unobservables that might affect depression. Using a nationally representative …

We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and "day of the week", on the level of honesty by conducting under …

We examine the roles played by intrinsic religiosity and faith-based education in both short and long-term outcomes …'s intrinsic religiosity is an important driver of short-term educational outcomes (such as age 16 test scores) and some longer …

of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non … back by the recruiters. A follow-up survey confirms that the signal used to convey fictitious applicants' religiosity is …

Can religiosity sway a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce two state …-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the frequencies of (i) religious language in book …