The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (countryspecific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …

’ religiosity is associated with higher levels of well-being as a large number of studies by mental health researchers and … economists have suggested. It is shown that in simple models which take no account of possible simultaneity that religiosity, as … measured by the frequency of prayer, is associated with a higher level of depression. To circumvent possible reverse causality …

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

investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to … speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative relationship between their population share and house price volatility …

religiosity (measured by one dichotomous church attendance variable) and fertility. The International Social Survey Programme … essential to include exposure to religious practice during childhood in an attempt to establish a link between religiosity and …: Religion 2 (ISSP) provides the data base. It includes information on maternal/paternal/own mass participation when the …

various dimensions of religiosity: respondent’s religious affiliation; if he is Catholic- his current mass attendance (six …The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the … question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at …