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Household Allocation of Time and Church Attendance

Author(s) -

Corry F. Azzi,

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Publication year - 1975

Publication title -

journal of political economy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 21.034

H-Index - 186

eISSN - 1537-534X

pISSN - 0022-3808

DOI - 10.1086/260305

Subject(s) - church attendance , wife , attendance , time allocation , survey data collection , economics , division (mathematics) , demographic economics , sociology , psychology , social psychology , economic growth , political science , social science , mathematics , statistics , law , religiosity , arithmetic

This paper presents the first systematic attempt by economists to analyze the determinants of individuals' participation in religious activities. A multiperiod utility-maximizing model of household behavior is developed which includes among its implications the shape of a household's life-cycle religious-participation profile and the division of religious participation between husband and wife. The theory is empirically tested using statewide church-membership data and survey data on individuals' frequency of church attendance. The paper concludes by discussing several extensions of the model which lead to additional potentially testable hypotheses.

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