The Church vs the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?

By Jonathan Gruber, Daniel M. Hungerman. 2008

315 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The New Economics of Religion (2016, background): “One theme in this largely empirical literature is whether or not state religions and a monopolistic structure matters for the freedom of markets (Barro and McCleary 2003; Stark and Finke 2000; Barro and McCleary 2005; North and Gwin 2004; Gruber 2005; Gruber and Hungerman 2008).”
• Universal Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well‐Being (2008, unknown): “To address the fact that we have a small number of treatments, we next report p-values from simulations following the guidance of Anderson and Meyer (2000), Conley and Taber (2005), and Gruber and Hungerman (2008).”
• Culture and Institutions (2015, unknown): “Gruber and Hungerman (2008) study the effect of changes in regulation (shopping hours) on religious practices (church attendance).”
• Randomizing Religion: the Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes* (2020, background): “More recent research has linked religiosity to positive outcomes in domains such as physical health (Ellison 1991), crime rates (Freeman 1986), drug and alcohol use (Gruber and Hungerman 2008), income (Gruber 2005), and educational attainment (Freeman 1986; Gruber 2005).”
• Does a CEO’s Cultural Heritage Affect Performance under Competitive Pressure? (2018, unknown): “For instance, Gruber and Hungerman (2008) show that when the opportunity costs of religious participation increase, church attendance and donations drop sharply.”
• Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, unknown): “5 See Fernandez (2008).”