. We review a considerable body of survey evidence and theory that seeks to explain why developers participate in open …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

then use a variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church …

complementary institutions, notably the church, could have mutually reinforced each other over many overlapping generations, long …