This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We … less likely to be religious and to take up the short-term costs associated with religiosity. What is likely to drive this …

We look at the effect of religiosity on social trust, defined as the share of a population that thinks that people in …, democratic stability and subjective well-being. The effect of religiosity is theoretically unclear: while all major religions … the U.S. states, measuring religiosity by the share of the population that answers yes to the question “Is religion an …

We provide evidence on the significant effect of religiosity (measured by attendance to religious services) on reducing … depression. In particular, it is found a significant negative effect of religiosity on the probability of being depressed …-significant effect on the probably of depression, other aspects of religiosity, in particular the religious diversity of the country 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 …