religiosity. -- Levels of development ; religiosity ; biogeography …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 …

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 … to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The …

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 … to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The …

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our empirical estimates, which include religiosity, political institutions, and other explanatory variables, confirm …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our empirical estimates, which include religiosity, political institutions, and other explanatory variables, confirm …