This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context … of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct … by economists such as incentive compatibility are particularly appropriate for studying the effect of religion on …

. 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 …

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 investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …'s religiosity in certain tasks. We find that trusting increases with the potential trustee's religiosity. The extent to which … trusting increases with a trustee's religiosity, in turn, increases with a truster's religiosity. Trustworthiness also …

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

immigration is first and foremost the result of a rejection of fundamentalist forms of religiosity. This suggests that common …

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 …

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 …