, but almost no impact on urban and suburban areas. I use a difference-in-difference methodology and find that religiosity … agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper … who are not. I hypothesize that the increased religiosity results from religious institutions' ability to provide public …

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 …