IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151

Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7119

Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis

Shoshana Grossbard, Sankar Mukhopadhyay

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (3), 447-467

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6977

Family Values, Social Needs and Preferences for Welfare

Claudio Lucifora, Dominique Meurs

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6384

Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants' Religiosity' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:23. A different revised version published as 'Immigration-Religiosity Intersections at the Two Sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States' in: Constant A. and Zimmermann K. (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, 2013, Eward Elgar Publishing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6329

Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004

Niaz Asadullah, Uma Kambhampati, Florencia López Bóo

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(4), 869-893

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179

The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson

substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6172

The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan

Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson

published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (27), 3914-3921

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6114

The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5966

Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Andrew E. Clark

published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5787

Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773

Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5724

Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures

Mariya Aleksynska, Barry R. Chiswick

published as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 563-598; reprinted in: The Economics of Cultural Diversity, 2015, edited by Peter Nijkamp et al.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5215

Religion and Child Health

Barry R. Chiswick, Donka M. Mirtcheva

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5184

Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Bernard M. S. van Praag, Dmitri Romanov, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (6), 1008-1020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5068

How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 646-662