The relationship between income, religiosity and health: Their effects on life satisfaction

Within most countries, the rich are happier than the poor. Those who strongly believe in God are happier than non-believers. Plouffe and Tremblay (2017) probe whether these two patterns also hold at the national level. For religiosity, they find that more religious nations are less happy on average. Regarding income, they fail to find a national-level link between national income and self-reported life-satisfaction, even though much earlier...