Incentives in Judeo-Christian beliefs: an economist's guide to heaven

This paper links incentives posed by Judeo-Christian beliefs to economic behavior. Tests support strength for the links even when likely bias favors the alternative one would otherwise expect. Model results explain why strength of faith is irrelevant to behavior in some belief archetypes but important in others. and offer insight into evidence commonly found elsewhere that believers report greater happiness than non believers.

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Year of publication:	2013-05-28
Authors:	Muller, Edward N ; Stone, Joe A
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 33.2013, 2, p. 1300-1310
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	faith \| religion \| God \| donations \| charity

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	A1 - General Economics ; J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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