| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14303 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14303 |
| Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout | |
| Alan Gerber; Jonathan Gruber; Daniel M. Hungerman | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-09-05 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity ("Blue laws") to measure the effects of church-going on political participation. The repeal of Blue Laws caused a 5 percent decrease in church attendance. We measure the effect of Blue Laws' repeal on political participation and find that following the repeal turnout falls by approximately 1 percentage point. This turnout decline, which is statistically significant and fairly robust across model specifications, is consistent with the large effect of church attendance on turnout reported in the literature, and suggests that church attendance may have significant causal influence on voter turnout. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14303 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571976 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alan Gerber,Jonathan Gruber,Daniel M. Hungerman. Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout. 2008. |
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| w14303.pdf（105KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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