| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w13689
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 13689
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| Religious Conversion in 40 Countries |
| Robert J. Barro; Jason Hwang
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| 发表日期 | 2007-12-20
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey allow us to calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. These conversion rates apply to religion adherence classified into eight major types. In a theoretical model based on rational individual choice, the frequency of religious conversion depends on factors that influence the cost of switching and the cost of having the "wrong" religion. Empirical findings for a panel of countries accord with several hypotheses: religious-conversion rates are positively related to religious pluralism, gauged by adherence shares; negatively related to government restrictions on religious conversion; positively related to levels of education; and negatively related to a history of Communism. Conversion rates are not much related to per capita GDP, the presence of state religion, and the extent of religiosity. Effects from the type of religion adherence are minor, except for a negative effect from Muslim adherence. The empirical results are robust to alternative specifications of the religion groupings used to construct the conversion rates. |
| 主题 | Other
; Culture
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13689
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571365
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Robert J. Barro,Jason Hwang. Religious Conversion in 40 Countries. 2007.
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