Preaching matters: Replication and extension
Brooks B. Hull,Frederick Bold +1 more
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In this article, the authors provide theoretical support for the statistical evidence by showing that churches encourage appropriate behavior (thus providing property rights enforcement) because doing so benefits churches and their members.Abstract:
Statistical evidence in a recent excellent 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 U.S. county. We provide theoretical support for the statistical evidence by showing that churches encourage appropriate behavior (thus providing property rights enforcement) because doing so benefits churches and their members. Aa church membership increases, property rights enforcement increases, although at a diminishing rate.read more
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Introduction to the Economics of Religion
TL;DR: This article summarized and evaluated the principal themes and empirical findings that have appeared in some 200 recent papers on the economics of religion and applied standard economic theory to the study of individual religious activity, the characteristics of religious groups, and the impact of regulation and competition on religious markets.
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Tasting Freedom: happiness, religion and economic transition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Hungarian survey data to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness and found that religious involvement contributes positively to individuals' self-reported well-being.
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Are church and state substitutes? Evidence from the 1996 welfare reform
TL;DR: The authors used a new panel data set of Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations to regress both church-member donations and a church's community spending on a number of variables, including government welfare expenditures.
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Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?
Jonathan Gruber,Jonathan Gruber +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that a higher market density leads to a significantly increased level of religious participation, and as well to better outcomes according to several key economic indicators: higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher level of marriage, and lower level of divorce.
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Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?
TL;DR: The authors found that a major determinant of religious participation is religious market density, or the share of the population in an area which is of an individual's religion, and that a higher market density leads to a significantly increased level of religious participants, and as well to better outcomes according to several key economic indicators: higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher level of marriage, and lower level of divorce.
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Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach
TL;DR: In fact, some common properties are shared by practically all legislation, and these properties form the subject matter of this essay as discussed by the authors, which is the basis for this essay. But, in spite of such diversity, some commonsense properties are not shared.
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Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions
TL;DR: The authors showed that looking out for Number One may require that we look out for others, too, finding evidence in our emotional acts, like the blush on telling a lie, they can serve as hard-to-fake signals of a commitment to social values.
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Passions within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions.
Kai A. Konrad,Robert H. Frank +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Frank shows that looking out for Number One may require that we look out for others, and he finds evidence in our emotional acts, like the blush on telling a lie, they can serve as hard-to-fake signals of a commitment to social values.
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Order without law : how neighbors settle disputes
TL;DR: Shasta County and its Cattle Industry as mentioned in this paper The Politics of Cattle Trespass 3. Disputes Arising out of Highway Collisions Involving Livestock 6. A Theory of Norms 7. Shortcomings of current Theories of Social Control 9. The Puzzle of Cooperation 10. A Hypothesis of Welfare-Maximizing Norms 11. Substantive Norms: Of Bees, Cattle, and Whales
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Order without law
TL;DR: Shasta County and its Cattle Industry as mentioned in this paper The Politics of Cattle Trespass 3. Disputes Arising out of Highway Collisions Involving Livestock 6. A Theory of Norms 7. Shortcomings of current Theories of Social Control 9. The Puzzle of Cooperation 10. A Hypothesis of Welfare-Maximizing Norms 11. Substantive Norms: Of Bees, Cattle, and Whales