TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brañas-Garza, Pablo
AU  - García-Muñoz, Teresa
AU  - Neuman, Shoshana
        TI  - Unravelling Secularization: An International Study
        PY  - 2007/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3251
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3251
        AB  - The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for the determinants of this decision. It was found that the tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with their spouse's religious characteristics. Moreover, personal socio-demographic features seem to be less relevant.
        KW  - prayer
KW  - religion
KW  - convert-out
KW  - church attendance
KW  - parental religiosity
KW  - Europe
        ER  -