Incentives in religious performance: a stochastic dominance approach

Using a stochastic dominance approach in an international dataset of about 10,000 Catholic subjects, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a crucial role in religious practice (church attendance and prayer). Furthermore, we find that when both positive (heaven) and negative (hell) incentives are available, the former have a much stronger effect than the latter. The results are confirmed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests.

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Year of publication:	2010-10-01
Authors:	García-Muñoz, Teresa M.
Institutions:	Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Subject:	incentives \| rewards \| punishment \| economics of religion

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Papers on Economics of Religion.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 10/02 6 pages
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611948