Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP16252
Authors: Monica Roman; Klaus F. Zimmermann; Aurelian Petru Plopeanu
Abstract: While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among the young. This study shows that not religion as such or internal religiosity, but largely observable (external) religiosity prevents them from wallowing those vices.
Keywords: addictive behavior; orthodox; external and internal religiosity; youth; smoking; drinking; drugs; Romania
JEL Codes: I12; N34; Z12
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| external religiosity (Z12) | lower likelihood of smoking (I12) |
| internal religiosity (Z12) | lower likelihood of smoking (I12) |
| external religiosity (Z12) | lower drug openness (K49) |
| gender (J16) | levels of religiosity (Z12) |
| education (I29) | levels of religiosity (Z12) |