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The Effect of Income on Religiousness
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious … behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer … in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate causal effects. We find significant effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052068
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The effect of income on religiousness
Buser, Thomas - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 7 (2015) 3, pp. 178-195
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318364
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Religion and income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2008
influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find … that estimation outcomes are different between low and high-income countries. Whereas church membership is found to have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374426
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The bicausal relation between religion and income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2005
In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346459
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The invisible hand plays dice : eventualities in religious markets
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450057
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The Effect of Income on Religiousness
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious … behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer … in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate causal effects. We find significant effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398654
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The Effect of Income on Religiousness
Buser, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious … behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer … in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate causal effects. We find significant effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775093
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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797041
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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804246
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Persistence of Religious States
Oyekola, Olayinka - 2021
The relationship between state and religion has deep roots in history, being recognized as one of the oldest alliances … widespread. Yet, among our sample of 147 countries, 56 had state religion in 2000. This paper offers an inquiry into why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223522