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The Economics of Misbehavior, Love, and Marriage Contract Enforcement
(1989-02)
Individuals allocate time between production of goods shared by family members and goods consumed only by the individual. Individuals are inclined to misbehave by giving less time to production of shared goods than is ...
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 ...
An OPEC in Fantasyland? The NAB Television Code as Cartel (revised)
(1986-10)
The U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that its Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. Had the case, which was settled by consent decree in ...
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 ...
Recent patterns in downward income mobility: Sinking boats in a rising tide
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-03)
This paper employs four measures of downward income mobility and 1984–1986 PSID data to examine the extent and possible causes of downward mobility. Despite modest economic growth during this period, a substantial number ...
An Economics Perspective Ten Years After the NAB Case
(1989-01)
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 ...
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 ...
Again Greene: The Economics of the NAB Case
(1986-10-05)
Commonly in antitrust cases against trade associations, the courts have made decisions based on a rule of reason, evaluating the harm caused by the association rather than proscribing per se a given activity. Had Judge ...