Rigbi, Oren; Abramitzky, Ran; Einav, Liran - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2012
We study the extent to which religious activity responds to the presence and activity of other religions. Specifically, we employ individual-level survey data and county-level expenditure data to examine the extent to which Hanukkah celebration among U.S. Jews is driven by the presence of...