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The Churching of Colonial Connecticut: A Case Study
(Religious Research Association, Inc., 1999-12)
The market model of religion asserts in part that clergy respond to incentives. For eighteenth-century European established churches, clergy income was independent of church membership and so clergy tended not to behave ...
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 ...
An Economics Perspective Ten Years After the NAB Case
(Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990)
The U.S. Justice Department brought suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that the NAB Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. This paper examines implications of a collusive ...
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. ...
The Economics of Religion: A Survey of Recent Work
(Association of Christian Economists, 1991)
This essay is designed to familiarize readers with the economics of religion, make its literature more accessible, and encourage further contributions to that literature. The essay begins with work on the religious behavior ...