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

We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value … Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity … religiosity. …

identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further … turn induce taste-based discrimination. Religiosity may also relate to general prejudice. We test these hypotheses across … in religiosity and affiliation promote trust through beliefs of reciprocity. Religious participants also believe that …

outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet the question remains whether the link is … causal. The key issue is selection into religiosity. We exploit plausibly random variation in adolescents' peers to shift … religiosity independently of other individual-level unobservables that might affect depression. Using a nationally representative …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …