Does It Pay To Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual
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Keywords
economics of religion; experimental economics; religious ritual; cooperation; signaling; field experiment; kibbutz;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- P32 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Collectives; Communes; Agricultural Institutions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2003-09-24 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2003-09-24 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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