FVT_YK_AK_2022_CREAM_Conflicts and religiosity refugees

The results show that the greater the number of conflict-induced fatalities in the period before the interview, the more often refugees pray. [...] We thereby take advantage of the exogenous variation in conflict intensity in the period preceding the interview of refugees who originate from different countries and regions and the random assignment of the period and day of the interview. [...] The first wave of the survey took place in 2016, in the aftermath of the surge in the number of refugees coming into Europe in 2015. [...] The findings show that higher levels of cumulative fatalities in the region of birth in the week prior to the interview result in a higher probability of daily praying among refugees in Germany (Model 1). [...] The analyses show that there is a statistically significant effect (p<0.05, two-sided test), i.e., the greater the number of family members or relatives remaining in the country of origin is, the stronger the effect of conflict intensity in the region of birth on the probability of daily praying (Supplementary Table S12, Model 10.2).