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Papers and publications related to the economic study of religion. The references by are sorted by author.
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Allen, Douglas W. "Order in the Church: A Property Rights Approach."
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Anderson, Gary M. "Invest Now for Your (Eternal) Retirement: The Economics of the Medieval Afterlife." Paper presented at the meetings of the Western Economic Association in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Year.
Anderson, Gary M. "Mr. Smith and the Preachers: The Economics of Religion in the Wealth of Nations." Journal of Political Economy 96 (5 1988): 1066-1088.
Anderson, Gary M. and Robert D. Tollison. "Morality and Monopoly: The Constitutional Political Economy of Religious Rules." Cato Journal 12 (2 1992): 373-392.
Anderson, Gary M., Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hebert, and Robert D. Tollison. "An Economic Interpretation of the Medieval Crusades." The Journal of European Economic History 21 (2 1992): 339-363.
Ayal, Eliezer B., and Barry R. Chiswick. "The Economics of the Diaspora Revisited." Economic Development and Cultural Change 31 (4 1983): 861-875.
Azzi, Corry and Ronald Ehrenberg. "Household Allocation of
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Bainbridge, William Sims. "Explaining the Church Member Rate." Social Forces 68(4 1990): 1287-1296.
Bainbridge, William Sims. "The Religious Ecology of Deviance." American Sociological Review 54(April 1989): 288-295.
Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia. Nirobi: Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Bezilla, Robert (ed.). Religion in America, 1990. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religion Research Center, 1990.
Bezilla, Robert (ed.). Religion in America, 1992-1993. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Religious Research Center, 1993.
Biddle, Jeff E. "Religious Organizations". In Who Benefits from the Nonprofit Sector?, ed. Charles T. Clotfelter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Block, Walter and Irving Hexam, ed. Religion, Economics and Social Thought. Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, 1986.
Block, Walter, Geoffrey Brennan, and Kenneth (editors) Elzinga. The Morality of the Market: Religious and Economic Perspectives. Vancouver, British Columbia: The Fraser Institute, 1985.
Boulding, Kenneth E. Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1968. (Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1970).
Bradley, Martin B., Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil. 1992. Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990: An Enumeration by Region, State and County. Based on Data Reported for 133 Religious Groupings. Atlanta, GA: Glenmary Research Center, 1992.
Brenner, Reuven, and Nicholas Kiefer. 1981. "The Economics of the Diaspora: Discrimination and Occupational Structure." Economic Development and Cultural Change 29:517-533.
Bruce, Steve. "Religion and Rational Choice: A Critique of
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54 (2 1993): 193-205.
Carr, Jack L. and Janet T. Landa. "The Economics of Symbols, Clan Names, and Religion." Journal of Legal Studies 12 (1 1983): 135-156.
Cassone, Alberto and Marchese, Carla. The Economics of Religious Indulgences. Department of Economics, University of Torino. Torino, Italy, 1995. Working paper
Chaves, Mark and David E. Cann. "Regulation, Pluralism, and Religious Market Structure: Explaining Religion's Vitality." Rationality and Society 4 (3 1992): 272-290.
Chaves, Mark. "On the Rational Choice Approach to Religion." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34 (1 1995): 98-104.
Chiswick, Barry R. "An Economic Analysis of Philanthropy." In Contemporary Jewish Philanthropy in America, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Paul Ritterband. 3-15. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991.
Chiswick, Barry R. "The Earnings and Human Capital of American Jews." Journal of Human Resources 18 (Summer 1983): 313-335. (Refs to Jewish earnings: Ayal and Chiswick 1983, Chiswick 1983, 1985, 1995; cf. Brenner and Kiefer 1981)
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Chiswick, Barry. "The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry, 1890 to 1990: A preliminary Report." Paper presented at the meetings of the American Economic Association, Washington, DC: 1995.
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Chiswick, Carmel U. Determinants of Religious Intermarriage: Are Jews Really Different? University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993.
Clotfelter, Charles T. Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving. NBER Monograph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
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Cochran, John K., and Leonard Beeghley. 1991. "The Influence of Religion on Attitudes Toward Non-Marital Sexuality." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30:45-62.
Cochran, John K., and Ronald L. Akers. "Beyond Hellfire: An Exploration of the Variable Effects of Religiosity on Adolescent Marijuana and Alcohol Use." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 26(1989): 198-225.
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Delacroix, Jacques. "A critical empirical test of the common interpretation of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." Paper presented at the meetings of the International Association for Business and Society in Leuven, Belgium, 1992.
Delacroix, Jacques. "Review of Religion and Economic Action: the Rise of the Protestant Work Ethic, the Rise of Capitalism, and the Abuses of Scholarship." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34 (1 1995): 126-127.
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Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Translated by Joseph Ward Swain. New York, NY: Free Press, 1965.
Durkin, John T. and Andrew Greeley. "A Model of Religious Choice Under Uncertainty." Rationality and Society 3 (1991): 178-196.
Dwyer, Jeffrey W., Leslie L. Clarke, and Michael K. Miller. "The Effect of Religious Concentration and Affiliation on County Cancer Mortality Rates." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 31(June 1991): 185-202.
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. "Household Allocation of Time and Religiosity: Replication and Extension." Journal of Political Economy 85 (2 1977): 415-423.
Eisenstadt, S. N. The Protestant Ethic and Modernization: A Comparative View. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1968.
Ekelund, Robert B, Jr., Robert F. Hebert, and Robert D. Tollison. "The Economics of Sin and Redemption: Purgatory as a market-pull innovation?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 19 (1992): 1-15.
Ekelund, Robert B., Jr., Robert F. Hebert, and Robert D. Tollison. "An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking." Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 5 (2 1989): 307-331.
Ekelund, Robert B., Robert F. Hebert, Robert D. Tollison, Gary M. Anderson, and Audrey B. Davidson. Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Ellison, Christopher G. "Religion, the Life Stress Paradigm, and the Study of Depression." In Religion in Aging and Mental Health: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Frontiers, ed. Jeffrey S. Levin. 78-121. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993.
Ellison, Christopher G. "Religious Involvement and Subjective Well-Being." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 32(March 1991): 80-99.
Ellison, Christopher G. "Religious Involvement and Subjective Well-Being" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 32(March 1992): 80-99.
Elzinga, Kenneth G. "What is Christian Economics?" In Christian Perspectives on Economics, 5-11. Liberty University: Contemporary Economics and Business Association, 1989.
Evans, T. David, Francis T. Cullen, R. Gregory Dunaway, and Velmer
S. Burton, Jr. "Religion and Crime Reexamined: The Impact of
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Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. "How The Upstart Sects Won America: 1776-1850." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 28 (1 1989): 27-44.
Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. "Religious Economies and Sacred Canopies: Religious Mobilization in American Cities, 1906." American Sociological Review 53 (1 1988): 41-49.
Finke, Roger and Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Finke, Roger, Avery M. Guest, and Rodney Stark. "Mobilizing Religious Markets: Pluralism and Religious Participation in the Empire State: 1850-1865" American Sociological Review 61(2 April 1996): 203-218.
Finke, Roger. "Religious Deregulation: Origins and Consequences." Journal of Church and State 32 (3 1990): 609-626.
Freeman, Richard B. "Who Escapes? The Relation of Churchgoing
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Gay, Craig M. With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate over Capitalism. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991.
Gill, Anthony J. "Rendering unto Caesar? Religious Competition and Catholic Political Strategy in Latin America, 1962-79." American Journal of Political Science 38 (2 1994): 403-425.
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Glaeser, Edward L. Incentive, Predestination, and Free Will. 1994. Working Paper.
Glahe, Fred and Frank Vorhies. "Religion, Liberty and Economic Development: An Empirical Investigation." Public Choice 62 (3 1989): 201-215.
Greeley, Andrew M. Religious Change in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Greif, Avner. "Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies. Journal of Political Economy 102(5 1994): 912-950.
Grossbard-Shechtman, Amyra and Shoshana Newman. "Economic Behavior,
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Hadaway, Kirk. C., Penny. L. Marler, and Mark Chaves "What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at Church Attendance." American Sociological Review 58 (1993: 741-752.
Hadden, Jeffrey K. "Toward Desacralizing Secularization Theory." Social Forces 65 (3 1987): 587-611.
Hadden, Jeffrey K. Religion and the Quest for Meaning and Order: Old Paradigms, New Realities. University of Virginia, Sociology Department, 1995.
Hamberg, Eva M. and Thorleif Pettersson. "The Religious Market: Denominational Competition and Religious Participation in Contemporary Sweden." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33 (3 1994): 205-216.
Hardin, Russell. "The Economics of Religious Belief and Practice" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (March 1997).
Hart, Stephen. What Does the Lord Require? New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Healey, Robert M. "Jefferson on Judaism and the Jews: ‘Divided We Stand, United, We Fall!’" American Jewish History 73(4): (June 1984): 359-374.
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Heaton, Tim B. "How Does Religion Influence Fertility? The Case of Mormons." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 25 (1986): 248-258.
Heaton, Tim B. and E. L. Pratt. "The Effects of Religious Homogamy on Marital Satisfaction and Stability." Journal of Family Issues 11(2 1990):191-207.
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Hilke, John C. "Voluntary Contributions and Monitoring Efforts: Revealed Preference for the Services of Religious Organizations." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19 (1980): 138-145.
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