We use the largest common factor in 14 items reported in the World Values Surveys as a robust measure of religiosity …. This measure is held to identify the importance of religion in all aspects of people's life. The level of religiosity … differs by about 50 percentage points between rich and poor countries. We interpret the change in religiosity in terms of …

This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of … migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long lasting effect on the religiosity of … migrants. Second, exploiting variations in the inherited component of religiosity of migrants, our analysis uncovers the causal …

study argues that economic development depress religiosity. Subsequent comments will be linked to a much more comprehensive …

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

Arab-Israeli conflict affects religiosity among Jews and Muslims in Israel. In order to explore this relationship I link …

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 …

This paper studies how individual religiosity affects people's behaviour. In particular here I study the behaviour of …