@inproceedings{Opfinger2011Religiosity,
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 = {Kiel und Hamburg},
author = {Matthias Opfinger and Erich Gundlach},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I31; Z12; O11; 330; Happiness; religiosity; utility function; long-run development},
language = {eng},
number = {63},
publisher = {ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek f\"{u}r Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft},
series = {Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011},
title = {Religiosity as a determinant of happiness},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48360},
year = {2011}
}
