Konferenzbeitrag
Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
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 interpretation of the empirical results is that the indifference curves for religiosity and other commodities of the utility function are hump-shaped.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 ; No. 63
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Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Cultural Economics: Religion
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Subject
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Happiness
religiosity
utility function
long-run development
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Opfinger, Matthias
Gundlach, Erich
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Kiel, Hamburg
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Opfinger, Matthias
- Gundlach, Erich
- ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Time of origin
- 2011
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