This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion does insure against some adverse life events. All denominations suffer … less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

liberal areas were much less likely to experience a birth or marriage as a minor, invested more in education, and ended up in … of the gatekeepers to the new birth control technology. We show that a larger proportion of religiously opposed health …

one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely … signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the introduction of fair employment legislation, growth in hidden unemployment, and …

respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative …

on individual-level data provided by the Demographic and Health Survey (2000, 2004, 2010) in Malawi, this study explores … practicing other religions (Islam and other) or no religion, Christian females are indeed less likely to form polygynous unions …

differentials in the effect of husband’s income, number of children, education, and age on married women’s labour supply. It is … which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …

social insurance. We focus on the Vietnamese’s beliefs in marriage fortune predictions by the Taoist astrological system Tử … Vi. First, we estimate a structural model of assortative marriage matching and show that such beliefs’ importance in … marriage formation amounts to 6.5% of that of the entire age and education profile. Second, we estimate the effect of …

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well … method to tease out a causal relation between religion and well-being. We find that religion acts as a buffer: Unemployed …