We examine the roles played by intrinsic religiosity and faith-based education in both short and long-term outcomes … provide plausible and robust estimates of the impacts of both religious belief and faith schooling. We show that an individual …'s intrinsic religiosity is an important driver of short-term educational outcomes (such as age 16 test scores) and some longer …

Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church … attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of … religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious than men; religious activity increases with age; there is a …

not only affect religiosity and gender role attitudes, but also affects the high-stakes choices of getting married, having …

not only affect religiosity and gender role attitudes, but also affects the high-stakes choices of getting married, having …

This paper quantifies the association between religions, religiosity and educational attainment of new lawful … educational attainment for males. With regard to religiosity, our results show that high religiosity is associated with lower … that link religion and religiosity with educational attainment. …

Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church … attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of … religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious than men; religious activity increases with age; there is 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 …

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 …