http://abcnews.go.

com/blogs/health/2013/03/25/is-religion-good-for-your-
health/
This study, written with Professor James E. Enstrom of the University of
California, Los Angeles, showed that the life expectancy of Mormon men was
almost ten years longer than that of the general population of white
American males. Female Mormons lived between five and six years longer
than their general population counterparts. The longevity effect was most
pronounced for those who never smoked, went to church weekly, had at
least twelve years of education, and were married. Additional benefits were
seen in those who were not overweight, got plenty of sleep, and exercised.
They found similar benefits among Americans of any religion who practiced
the same healthy behaviors.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-
altruistic-secular-kids-study
The findings robustly demonstrate that children from households
identifying as either of the two major world religions (Christianity and Islam)
were less altruistic than children from non-religious households.
Older children, usually those with a longer exposure to religion,
exhibit[ed] the greatest negative relations.

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/researcher-religion-influences-behavior-
-both-good-and-bad
In two studies of 40 to 60 undergraduate students, belief in God did
not accurately predict the propensity to cheat but viewing God specifically as
punishing and less-loving was consistently associated with lower levels of
cheating.

http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/15/the_c
urious_economic_effects_of_religion/?page=2
The two collected data from 59 countries where a majority of the
population followed one of the four major religions, Christianity, Islam,
Hinduism, or Buddhism. They ran this data - which covered slices of years
from 1981 to 2000, measuring things like levels of belief in God, afterlife
beliefs, and worship attendance - through statistical models. Their results
show a strong correlation between economic growth and certain shifts in
beliefs, though only in developing countries. Most strikingly, if belief in hell
jumps up sharply while actual church attendance stays flat, it correlates with
economic growth. Belief in heaven also has a similar effect, though less
pronounced. Mere belief in God has no effect one way or the other.
Meanwhile, if church attendance actually rises, it slows growth in developing
economies.
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/Manuscripts/Norenzayan_Behaviour_DoesReli
gionMakePeopleMoral.pdf
Importantly for debates about religion and morality, these studies
show that when religious reminders are absent, believers and non-believers
especially those from societies with strong rule of law are equally
prosocial towards strangers.

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/03/religion-spirituality.aspx
Psychologically, religion helps people. Ph.D interview

https://www.hhs.se/contentassets/9f24533b76b94a14992bb3eab1d7724d/hu
ngerman.pdf
I find that higher levels of education lead to lower levels of religious
participation later in life. An additional year of education leads to a 4-
percentage-point decline in the likelihood that an individual identifies with
any religious tradition.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-people-are-less-
intelligent-than-atheists-according-to-analysis-of-scores-of-scientific-
8758046.html
A piece of University of Rochester analysis, led by Professor Miron
Zuckerman, found a reliable negative relation between intelligence and
religiosity in 53 out of 63 studies.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/22/science-and-religion/
Page 1
Are science and religion at odds with each other? A majority of the
public says science and religion often conflict, with nearly six-in-ten adults
(59%) expressing this view in newly released findings from a Pew Research
Center survey.
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...are more likely to say world population growth will not be a major
problem because we will find a way to stretch our natural resources.
---more likely to favor fracking compared with the unaffiliated, when
controlling for political, educational and demographic differences.
---more likely than are the religiously unaffiliated to support more
offshore drilling.
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---Christians (i.e., those who are Mormon or Orthodox Christian) are 35
percentage points less likely than the religiously unaffiliated to say scientists
generally agree that the universe was created in a single, violent event.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gender-pay-gap-affected-by-religiousness-of-
state-2016-10
drawn from original paper
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Our findings suggest that both religious belief and belonging relate to
gender wage differences in a significant way. Specifically, a greater
percentage of the population in a state with strong religious beliefs and
participation is associated with a larger gender wage gap. Our results are
robust to controlling for a number of explanatory variables.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-secular-life/201408/secularism-
religion-and-racism

drawn from here

https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/545/docs/Wendy_Wood_Research_Article
s/Social_Influence/hall.matz.wood.2010.final_why_dont_we_practice_what_we
_preach.pdf

In his latest analysis of 40 years of aggregate data from the General

Social Survey (see his book Changing Faith, 2014), sociologist Darren Sherkat
reveals that strongly religious Americans are far more likely to support laws
against interracial marriage than secular Americans

Duke University professor Deborah Hall and associates carefully

analyzed 55 separate studies in order to reveal the relationship between
religion, irreligion, and racism. And the most pertinent finding was that
strongly religious Americans tend to be the most racist, moderately religious
Americans tend to be less racist, and yet the group of Americans found to be
the least racist of all are secular Americans, particularly those espousing an
agnostic orientation.

http://www.uvu.edu/woodbury/docs/vol12-jbi-10-13-186.pdf
Interesting study that links the corruption perception index with religion.
Consequently, religion does not influence corruption. In other words,
religion is not a strong barrier for giving or taking bribes.

http://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/crime/religion-and-crime/

Of the 40 studies of religiosity and crime/delinquency they identified,

30 indicated that religion had a beneficial effect (i.e., led to reductions in) on
many types of criminal and deviant behaviors. The 10 remaining studies
showed either no effect (5 studies), mixed effects (3 studies), positive effects
(1 study), or effects not specified (1 study). Thus, Johnson et al. concluded
that the research literature consistently has shown that religion leads directly
or indirectly to reductions in criminal and deviant behavior. Baier and Wright
(2001) reviewed 60 studies of religion and crime that were conducted
between 1969 and 1998. They concluded that, overall, religion had a
moderate effect on reductions in criminal and deviant behaviors.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20447531?seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents

Strong correlation between happiness and religion.

Page 3 Shows a chart that shows religious people are more likely to be
happy.
Page 4 Shows a chart that shows religious people are less likely to be
lonely.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1387213?seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents

P197 Links religion and closeness to God to better health