Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?

By Jonathan Gruber. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Does Religion Matter to Equity Pricing? (2012, unknown): “2 Religion is shown to affect, among other things, individuals’ wages (Chiswick 1983), level of education (Chiswick 1985; Gruber 2005), tendency toward suicide (Pescosolido and Georgianna 1989), drug and alcohol use (Cochran and Akers 1989), health (Ellison 1991), criminal behavior (Evans et al.…”
Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, unknown): “A u t h o r ' s p e r s o n a l”
Religiosity and Earnings Management: International Evidence from the Banking Industry (2014, unknown): “…by 1 Prior research documents that religion affects, among other things, individuals’ wages (Chswick 1983), level of education (Chswick 1985; Gruber 2005), criminal behavior (Evans et al. 1995), risk aversion (Miller and Hoffman 1995; Halek and Eisenhauer 2001), and social ethics…”
Who Benefits from Religion? (2011, background): “At the societal level, higher religious involvement is related to increased levels of education (Gruber 2005), lower crime rates (Baier and Wright 2001; Johnson et al.”
Deliver us from evil: religion as insurance (2007, methodology): “Gruber (2005) uses a clever instrumentation strategy applied to frequency of religious attendance using General Social Survey data from 1984-2000; predicted (or instrumented) religious attendance”
Religion and subjective well-being among the elderly in China (2009, background): “Gruber (2005) finds that the effect on self-reported well-being of moving from never attending religious services to attending weekly is comparable to the effect of moving from the bottom income quartile to the top quartile.”
The Church vs the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition? (2008, background): “As reviewed in Gruber (2005), there is an enormous literature outside of economics which documents strong correlations between religious participation and positive outcomes, such as improved health and reduced criminal activity.”
Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance (2006, background): “See Clark and Lelkes (2004), Gill and Lundsgaarde (2004), Dehejia et al. (2005), Gruber (2005), Gruber and Hungerman (2005), Hungerman (2005), Chen (2004), Chen and Lind (2005).”
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws. NBER Working Paper No. 16973. (2011, background): “For example, an analysis of trends in education and religion typically indicates a negative relationship, as many countries have seen declines in religiosity that are concomitant with educational gains; the coincidence of these trends has also been noted in past work (Hout and Fischer, 2002).”