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  • Incentives in religious performance: a stochastic dominance approach

  • Teresa García-Muñoz
  • Journal:
    Judgment and Decision Making / Volume 5 / Issue 3 / June 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2023, pp. 176-181
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  • 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.

  • Gifts as governance: Church Welfare and the Samaritan's dilemma

  • Nathan P. Goodman, Roberta Q. Herzberg
  • Journal:
    Journal of Institutional Economics / Volume 16 / Issue 5 / October 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 September 2019, pp. 703-714

  • How do gifts relate to formal and informal institutions? Giving gifts, especially in the form of anti-poverty aid, opens the givers to a serious social dilemma: the Samaritan's dilemma. We explain how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses a mixture of formal and informal governance to provide sustainable social welfare programs that avoid this dilemma. These institutions not only govern aid arrangements, but also provide governance across the entire Church community, encouraging religious adherence and broad-based participation.