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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 ...
Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
(2013-03-11)
In 1119 C.E., King Baldwin II of Jerusalem granted nine French knights space in the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount over the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to create the headquarters of a new monastic order: The Poor ...
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. ...
Would You Buy a Used Car from this Priest? An Economic Theory of Religion and the Church
(1985-07)
This paper uses the theory of the firm to explain a variety of characteristics of religious doctrine and behavior. The paper analyzes doctrine about the afterlife, altering events, temporal happiness, and various social ...
Towards an Economic Theory of the Church
(MCB University Press, 1989)
This paper employs the theory of the firm to explain behavior of the church. Churches produce a set of products including entertainment, a variety of socially valuable public goods, eternal life, and alteration of otherwise ...