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10. Economics and Church State Research: Past, Present, Future

Authors : Daniel Hungerman, Timothy Weninger

Published in: Advances in the Economics of Religion

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter concerns scholarship on church/state relations, an area of longstanding interdisciplinary interest. We will discuss past work, some especially interesting recent work, and some recent work looking at especially timely policies, such as school vouchers, and especially noteworthy new data, such as new data based on weekly church bulletins. We will focus on research in the discipline of economics, where work on this topic goes back several centuries.

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Footnotes
1
For an international discussion of school-choice policies, see OECD (2012).
 
2
See Figlio (2009) and Hoxby (2003) for discussion of work in this area.
 
3
Like any subsidy, it is possible that in fact the voucher here does not mainly benefit churches but instead would benefit the families using the voucher—this is the standard issue of incidence one discusses with subsidies and taxes in principles of microeconomics. Hungerman and Rinz (2016) explore this issue and show that vouchers generate large revenue gains for schools (and thus potentially the churches that run then), but interestingly, the incidence of subsidies can vary greatly depending on whether subsidies are restricted to certain students or available for all students.
 
4
The words in the bulletin are not easily searched (we started with pdf bulletins, and OCR technology did not always find text in them successfully), but we converted the text in the bulletins to ASCII files (using a program in Unix) and then searched the many thousands of files for particular words (using a program in Matlab).
 
5
Some examples of the most common republican leaning words/phrases in bulletins are “boy scouts,” “human life,” and “ten commandments.” Some examples of the most common democratic leaning words/phrases include “senior citizens,” “African American,” and “low income.”
 
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Metadata
Title
Economics and Church State Research: Past, Present, Future
Authors
Daniel Hungerman
Timothy Weninger
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Advances in the Economics of Religion

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98847-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98848-1

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1_10