Publications
This page will eventually contain an archive of publications in the economics or rational choice study of religion. If you would like to have your published article posted here, please send it, along with permission from the copyright holder, to updates<at>ASREC<dot>org. We will also post links to articles already on the Web.
To download any of the following articles by Laurence Iannaccone (and co-authors), right-click on the corresponding links and save the file to disk. Many articles are available both as scanned "image" files and as text files. The text files download and print much faster, but often lack figures and graphs.
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Articles are sorted by date of publication.
Articles by Laurence R. Iannaccone:
Iannaccone (working paper,
2003): "The Market for Martyrs" (An economic-sociological
perspective on religion & suicide-bombing)
[Text 114k]
Iannaccone (working paper/in press, 2003): "Religion
Reloaded: Scenarios for Spirituality in the 21st Century"
[Text 26k]
Iannaccone (in press, 2003): "Never on Sunny Days: Lessons from
Congregational Attendance Counts"
[Text & figures 140k]
Iannaccone (working paper, 2003): "Looking Backward: A Cross-national
Study of Religious Trends"
[Text & figures
156k]
[Appendix 84k]
Iannaccone (working paper): "Religion, Values, and Behavioral
Constraint"
[Text 67k]
Iannaccone (2000): "Religious Extremism: Origins and Consequences"
[Image 2.8M]
Iannaccone (2000): "A Marriage Made in Heaven? Economic Theory and
Religious Studies"
[Downloads/Iannaccone
- Marriage in Heaven.pdf]
Iannaccone (1998): "An Introduction to the Economics of Religion."
[Image 185k]
[Addendum: Extended Bibliography 24k]
Iannaccone, Stark, and Finke (1998): "Rationality and the 'Religious
Mind.'"
[Text 104k]
Iannaccone (1997): "Toward an Economic Theory of Fundamentalism"
[Image 1.8M]
Iannaccone, Finke, & Stark (1997): "Deregulating Religion: The
Economics of Church and State."
[Image 1.6M]
Stark & Iannaccone (1997): "Why Jehovah's Witnesses Grow So Rapidly."
[Image 2.2M]
Iannaccone (1997): "Skewness Explained: A Rational Choice Model of
Religious Giving."
[Image 1.6M]
[Text 69k]
Iannaccone (1997): "Rational Choice: Framework for the Social
Scientific Study of Religion"
[Image 2.2M]
[Text 72k]
Stark, Iannaccone, and Finke (1996): "Religion, Science, and
Rationality."
[Image 0.7M]
[Text 30k]
Iannaccone (1996): "Reassessing Church Growth: Statistical Pitfalls
and their Consequences."
[Image 2.7M]
[Text 117k]
[Replies and Response
1.7M]
Iannaccone (1995): "Voodoo Economics? Defending the Rational Choice
Approach to Religion."
[Text 82k]
Iannaccone (1995): "Risk, Rationality, and Religious Portfolios."
[Image 1.7M]
Iannaccone (1995): "Household Production, Human Capital, and the
Economics of Religion."
[Image 1.7M]
[Text 51k]
Iannaccone, Olson, and Stark (1995): "Religious Resources and Church
Growth."
[Image 3M]
[Text 122k]
Iannaccone (1994): "Progress in the Economics of Religion."
[Image 0.9M]
[Text 38k]
Stark
and Iannaccone (1994): "A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the
'Secularization' of Europe"
[Image 3.3M]
Iannaccone (1994) "Why Strict Churches are Strong"
[Image 2.9M]
[Response to Critique .5M]
Iannaccone (1993): "Heirs to the Protestant Ethic? The Economics of
American Fundamentalists"
[Image 2.0M]
Iannaccone (1992): Addendum to Adam Smith Article: "Catholic Monopolies
Reconsidered."
[Image 0.5M]
Iannaccone (1992): "Religious Markets and the Economics of Religion."
[not currently available]
Iannaccone (1992): "Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-Riding in
Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives."
[Image 1.9M]
Iannaccone (1991): "The Consequences of Religious Market Regulation:
Adam Smith and the Economics of Religion"
[Image 2.5M]
[Text 73k]
Iannaccone & Miles (1990): "Dealing with Social Change: The Mormon
Church's Response to Change in Women's Roles"
[Image 2.0M]
Iannaccone (1990): "Religious Practice: A Human Capital Approach"
[Image 2.1M]
[Text 64k]
Iannaccone (1988) "A Formal Model of Church and Sect"
[Image 2.6M]
Iannaccone (1986) "Addiction and Satiation" (math-econ model of
rational habit formation)
[Image 0.5M]
KBoulding on Religion
[Image 1.6M]