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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 …
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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 …
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complementary institutions, notably the church, could have mutually reinforced each other over many overlapping generations, long …
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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 …
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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 …
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then use a variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church …
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The province of Ontario has two publicly funded school systems: secular schools (known as public schools) that are open to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered independently and receive equal funding per student. In...
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populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …
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A large economics literature seeks to understand the reasons why individuals make charitable contributions. Fundamental features of most models of charitable giving are the inclusion of externalities induced by other agents and the Lancasterian characteristics approach to specifying utility...
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We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
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