, 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 …

. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional … countries, that religiosity is negatively related to our institutional outcome variables. This only holds in democracies (not … autocracies), which suggests that religiosity affects the way institutions work through the political process. Individual …

overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

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 …

-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on … average, religiosity of immigrants is higher than that of the native born, even among those without a religious affiliation …, income, marital status, and notably denominations, partly account for the overall differences. Religiosity of immigrants …

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 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 …