Church attendance, age, and belief in the afterlife: Some additional evidence

Ulbrich, Holley Hewitt; Wallace, Myles S.

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“…7 These findings support our first hypothesis. Higher church attendance among women is found in numerous other studies (e.g., Azzi and Ehrenberg, 1975;Ulbrich and Wallace, 1983;Iannaccone, 1998). Gender might also affect the magnitude (and direction) of various socioeconomic variables.…”

Section: Estimation Of Religiosity Equationssupporting

confidence: 60%

“…The results in the literature are also mixed. Ulbrich and Wallace (1983) and Iannaccone (1998) found, using US data, that education is generally a positive predictor of religiosity. Barro and McCleary (2002), had similar results using an international data set.…”

Section: Years Of Schoolingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(3) Age: A positive effect of age on time spent on religious activity (if the wage rate is controlled for) would be expected either due to habit formation (Neuman, 1986); concentrating afterlife investments in the later stages of the life-cycle (AE's salvation motive); or the cohort effect of decreasing tastes for religiosity over time (Ulbrich and Wallace, 1983). The social-network utilitarian effect should be evident mainly at the prime working age and predominantly among men, leading to high participation rates in mass among males in this age group.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a series of papers, Azzi and Ehrenberg (1975), Long and Settle (1977), Ehrenberg (1977), Ulbrich andWallace (1983) andNeuman (1986) extended the New Home Economics (NHE) approach, pioneered by Mincer (1962Mincer ( , 1963 and Becker (1960Becker ( , 1965. The NHE introduced the concept that all goods and services can be produced in a household and cost and income effects apply to a broad range of topics.…”

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Analyzing Religiosity within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

Brañas–Garza

Neuman

2004

Review of Economics of the Household

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish CatholicsPablo Brañas Garza Shoshana Neuman The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor, (2) internationalization of labor markets, (3) welfare state and labor market, (4) labor markets in transition countries, (5) the future of labor, (6) evaluation of labor market policies and projects and (7) general labor economics. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available on the IZA website (www.iza.org) or directly from the author. ABSTRACT Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish CatholicsUsing a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious than men; religious activity increases with age; there is a (marginally) significant positive relationship between schooling and religiosity; religiosity is positively related to exposure to religious activity during childhood; and male religious activity is positively affected by marital status (being married to a catholic wife) and by the number of children at home. The results also demonstrate the importance of the "salvation motive" for the two genders and the presence of the "professional utilitarian motive" in male religious behaviour.JEL Classification: Z12, I21

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“…The literature concerning the effect of employment and gross domestic product on church attendance is controversial and some scholars, such as Azzi and Ehrenberg (1975), find that higher levels of employment and gross domestic product lead to lower church attendance rates, owing to higher opportunity costs of engaging in religious activities. On the other hand, Long and Settle (1977), Ulbrich and Wallace (1983) and Iannaccone (1998) find no relationship between those economic variables and the level of religious participation. Female, Urban, Pop_Density and Life_Expectancy are entered in the regressions in order to control for the effect of social and demographic factors.…”

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After the fall: the impact of government regulation on church attendance in Eastern Europe, 1990–2004

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2009

Public Choice

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Religious Freedom and the Unintended Consequences of State Religion

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Gwin²

2004

Southern Economic Journal

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We use a cross‐section of 59 countries to examine the impact of state religion and of constitutional protection of religion on the degree of religiosity within a country. Our measure of religiosity is the percentage of the population who attend religious services at least once a week. We find that both establishment of a state religion and constitutional protection of religion have significant (and opposing) effects. The existence of a state religion reduces attendance by 14.6‐16.7% of the total population, whereas each decade of constitutional protection increases attendance by approximately 1.2% of the population. We also find that other measures of religious regulation have significant negative effects on attendance. Ironically, the motive behind establishment of a particular state religion usually is to strengthen that religion, but the effects are ultimately to undermine the vitality of the established religion.

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Church attendance, age, and belief in the afterlife: Some additional evidence

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

Analyzing Religiosity within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

Analyzing Religiosity within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics

After the fall: the impact of government regulation on church attendance in Eastern Europe, 1990–2004

Religious Freedom and the Unintended Consequences of State Religion

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