We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value … Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity … to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The …

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

The empirical relation between happiness and religiosity is considered from the perspective of basic utility theory. An … unbalanced cross-country panel data set is used to study whether religiosity can be considered as a substitute in the happiness … maintained with high and low levels of religiosity due to substitution along a standard indifference curve. Our empirical results …

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

The empirical relation between happiness and religiosity is considered from the perspective of basic utility theory. An … unbalanced cross-country panel data set is used to study whether religiosity can be considered as a substitute in the happiness … maintained with high and low levels of religiosity due to substitution along a standard indifference curve. Our empirical results …

. This measure is held to identify the importance of religion in all aspects of people's life. The level of religiosity …We use the largest common factor in 14 items reported in the World Values Surveys as a robust measure of religiosity … differs by about 50 percentage points between rich and poor countries. We interpret the change in religiosity in terms of …

Religiosity is defined as the importance of religion in all aspects of life. The definition is operationalized into a … robust measure by aggregating 14 items from the World Values Surveys. Religiosity falls by 50 % when countries pass through … predominantly from income to religiosity. The transition slope is robust to measurement error and composition of the country sample …

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …