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%T The macro-level effect of religiosity on health %A Herzer, Dierk %J Health Economics %N 6 %P 993-1011 %V 31 %D 2022 %K life expectancy at birth; public health expenditures; ISSP 2008 %@ 1099-1050 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-91716-3 %X An issue that has not yet been explored in the religiosity-health literature is the macro-level effect of religiosity on health - the effect of the religiosity of a society on the absolute health of the population of that society as a whole. We address this issue using two panel datasets: The first is a time-series cross-sectional panel dataset for 17 countries from 1925 to 2000. The second is a cross-sectionally dominated panel dataset of up to 92 countries for the period 1981-2016. Our main findings are as follows: first, religiosity has a significant negative causal effect on health at the macro level; second, a substantial part of this effect can be attributed to an indirect effect via public health expenditures; and third, changes in population health do not cause significant changes in societal religiosity. %C GBR %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info