We combine a new dataset of weekly Catholic church donations with a new dataset of presidential-election campaign stops … appear to vary based on the political language used by the parish in its own church bulletins. However, the effect does …

This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We … examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a …

We study the impact of information and communication technology on growth through its impact on organization and …

This paper studies alternative empirical strategies for estimating the effects of organization design practices on …

church closures and mergers. Despite these results, we fail to find evidence that vouchers promote religious behavior …: voucher expansion causes significant declines in church donations and church spending on non-educational religious purposes …

citizens. The sale of private chapels within churches to individuals was a significant source of church funds, and facilitated … a church construction boom. Chapel sales offered three benefits to churches: prices were usually far above cost; donor …/purchasers purchased masses and other tie-in services; and they added to the magnificence of the church because donors were required to …

The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …

actions. Within this population, we find that those who attend church frequently appear to refrain from lying while those that … do not frequently attend church do lie, but do not disguise their lies like more secular populations. We further explain …

populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …

The availability of public funding for charitable church activity has increased dramatically in the past decade. A key … race affects charitable church activity. In all three datasets there is evidence that all-white congregations become less … charitable activities, not when looking at other types of church activity. Additionally, all-white congregations favorably …