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Religiosity: A comparison between Latin Europe and Latin America

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Ianina Rossi () (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)
Máximo Rossi () (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

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We present a brief discussion about religious behavior from a microeconomic perspective considering individual decisions about church attendance and its frequency in some Latin European and American countries. With this aim, we analyze the links between individuals’ religiosity and several socioeconomic variables. We confirmed that Uruguayans are the least religious. We also found that religious activity is more intense for women and older people, and the education level has an ambiguous effect on the intensity of religious activity. In addition, we find that richer people are more religious, but countries with higher income per capita are less religious.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics - dECON in its series Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) with number 1108.

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Date of creation: Jul 2008
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Keywords: church attendance; religious activity; religion and socioeconomic variables;

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Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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