Din ve ekonomi: Din önemli mi?

The main objective of this thesis is to discuss what economics brings new in the scientific analysis of religion and to empirically investigate the relationship between religiosity and several socio-economic and demographic variables as well as economic development indicators using LSS individual data in Turkish population where empirical studies on this topic were very limited until recently. Although there are differences between genders, education and income are found to be negatively associated with religiosity in the analysis of micro data used to determine significant associates of religiosity in terms of individual socio-economic and demographic caharacteristics. Macro data analysis revealed that there is significant negative correlation between religiosity and level of development accross provinces.