religion and analyzes the effects of religion on life satisfaction, and perceptions of the current economic and political …This paper focuses on the effects of reforms and religion on happiness in transition economies. Previous literature … marital separation. I estimate an econometric model to study if religion also insures against aggregate shocks to happiness …

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within … is a strong predictor for church attendance. Economic variables only weakly account for some of the variation inasmuch as …

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of "religious human capital" in Germany within … is a strong predictor for church attendance. Economic variables account for some of the variation inasmuch as high non …

We decompose the persistent satisfaction gap between East and West Germany into effects of objective circumstances and … of residence. Using about 420,000 observations, 1990-2016, we find 54.4 percent of the satisfaction gap to be … attributable to mentality. The mentality gap in the overall sample is driven by birth cohorts socialized under communism, the …