| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18641 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18641 |
| The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field | |
| Ned Augenblick; Jesse M. Cunha; Ernesto Dal Bó; Justin M. Rao | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-12-21 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief in a, crucially, falsifiable religious proposition. We implemented this approach with a group that expected the "End of the World" to happen on May 21, 2011 by offering prizes payable before and after May 21st. The results suggest the existence of a demand for extreme, sincere beliefs that was unresponsive to experimental manipulations in price. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Behavioral Economics ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18641 |
| 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/576316 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ned Augenblick,Jesse M. Cunha,Ernesto Dal Bó,et al. The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field. 2012. |
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