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A Preliminary Time Series Analysis of Church Activity in Colonial Woodbury, Connecticut
(Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1989-12)
We examine a small part of the substantial detailed data on church activity for colonial Woodbury, Connecticut. Time series regression analysis suggests that religious activity in Woodbury, as reflected in new church ...
Religion, Afterlife, and Property Rights in the High Middle Ages
(University of South Carolina, 1989)
Religion serves a number of important functions, one of which is to provide an alternative to the state and to the local community in enforcing particular social behavior. As the nature of the state's power, of the influence ...
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 ...
Forest Economics and Policy
(New Zealand Institute of Foresters Inc., 1988-02)
The economics of deriving raw materials from forests is examined. Competitive markets are consistent with the notion of efficiency, although they may not produce results that are fair. Sustainability as an alternative ...
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. ...
Free Riding, Market Structure, and Church Member Donations in South Carolina
(Religious Research Association, 2010-12)
The research on factors influencing member donations to churches is extensive. This paper uses unique data from South Carolina Baptists congregations to confirm much of the research, particularly including the potential ...