@techreport{Gundlach2011Religiosity,
abstract = {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.},
address = {Hamburg},
author = {Erich Gundlach and Matthias Opfinger},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I31; Z12; O11; 330; happiness; religiosity; utility function; long-run development; Zufriedenheit; Religion; Einkommensverteilung; Nutzenfunktion; Statistische Verteilung; Welt},
language = {eng},
number = {163},
publisher = {GIGA},
title = {Religiosity as a determinant of happiness},
type = {GIGA working papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/47746},
year = {2011}
}
