The Catholic sex abuse scandals reduced both membership and religiosity in the Catholic Church. Because government … decline in religiosity affected several measures of the public taste towards government spending on welfare between 1990 and …

the effects of a broad set of measures of religiosity on substance use at different stages of the life course. In contrast …

schooling on self-reported religiosity, social religious acts (attending religious services), as well as solitary religious acts …

of education on religiosity, lifestyles and political preferences by using exposure to the law as an instrument for … schooling. The data set includes information about the extent of religiosity, lifestyle choices (e.g. modern, conservative …'s religiosity or their tendency to vote for Islamic parties. The results are robust to controlling for indicators of individuals …

, controlling for secular trends. They are large: 300 to 400 children per nun. Reduced religiosity (measured by church attendance … religiosity complement each other -a finding consistent with preferential provision of services to church attendees. Nuns …

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

is a significant and robust negative relationship between religiosity and patents per capita. The political-economy model … knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity … stagnation, extreme religiosity with no modernization effort, and high public spending on religious public goods. In-between is a …