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Preaching Matters: Replication and Extension
(Elsevier, 1995)
Statistical evidence in a paper by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison shows a negative relationship between church membership and social misbehavior. This paper replicates that relationship using more comprehensive data by ...
Hell, Religion, and Cultural Change
(J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1994-09)
This paper's key conclusion is that church doctrine about the afterlife is a function of factors predictable with economic theory. Religion, like government, family, and community can enforce property rights and encourage ...
Product Variety in Religious Markets
(Association for Social Economics, 1998)
This paper analyzes the relationship between religious market product variety and church membership. We find that denominational variety is negatively associated with the total level of church membership in U.S. counties. ...