with high religious diversity the level of overall religiosity should increase. The Secularization Hypothesis suggests that … the establishment of new churches casts doubt on the existing religion, which results in a reduction of religiosity. The … present paper reinvestigates this relationship using a broader measure of religiosity than church attendance and calculating a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

endogeneity of religiosity is accounted for. The empirical findings suggest that if both parents are religious, their religiosity …'s religiosity has a stronger salutary effect than mother's religiosity. In fatherless families, children's health is more strongly …

We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and "day of the week", on the level of honesty by conducting under …

's experimentally induced religiosity (using a priming intervention) and of the corresponding interaction on people's willingness to … increases donations by about 56 %. We observe neither a direct effect of the induced religiosity nor an interaction with the …

secondary sources, I exploit preexisting variation in the intensity of Catholicism (i.e., religiosity) among French districts … and cantons. I show that, despite a stable spatial distribution of religiosity over time, more religious locations had …