L R Iannaccone
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 816 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L R Iannaccone |
| NOMBRES | L R |
| APELLIDO | Iannaccone |
| FIRMA | IANNACCONE L R |
| AFILIACIONES | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6931-6818 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1484 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Progressos na economia da religião
Texto originalmente publicado sob o título Progress in the Economics of Religion no Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, v. 150, n. 4, pp. 737-744, 1994. A tradução foi gentilmente autorizada pelo autor Laurence R. Iannaccone
From shocks to solidarity and superstition
Introdução à economia da religião
Texto originalmente publicado sob o título Introduction to the Economics of Religion em setembro de 1998. A tradução foi gentilmente autorizada pelo autor Laurence R. Iannaccone
Religious decline in the 20th century West
Accidental Atheists? Agent-Based Explanations for the Persistence of Religious Regionalism
This article outlines a new approach to the study of religious commitment. Starting with a variant on Schelling's classic model of mobility and segregation, we develop a multi-agent religion simulation (MARS) that incorporates insights from theories of religious choice, social influence, and preference formation. Compared to standard statistical methods, MARS does a better job of linking individual choices and collective outcomes. In particular, …
Religious extremism
Faith beyond time
Never on Sunny Days
Congregational attendance data are abundant, accessible, and relevant for religious research. Weekly attendance histories provide information about worshippers, congregations, and denominations that surveys cannot capture. The histories yield novel measures of commitment, testable implications of rational choice theory, and compelling evidence that attendance responds strongly to changes in the opportunity cost of time
Religious extremism
Deregulating Religion
Traditional religious research fails to recognize religion as a market phenomenon. It especially overlooks supply‐side factors that shape the incentives and opportunities of religious firms, emphasizing instead demand‐side shifts in the perceptions, tastes, and needs of consumers. This paper reviews the effects of government actions that alter religious supply. Our examples demonstrate that simple deregulation lies at the root of major religious …
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly
This paper applies a general theory of why religious movements succeed or fail to explain why the Jehovah's Witnesses are the most rapidly growing religious movement in the western world. In addition to qualitative assessments of Witness doctrines, organisational structures, internal networks, and socialisation, we utilise quantitative data from a variety of sources to assess such things as the impact of failed prophesies, how “strictness”; elimi…
Skewness Explained
This paper explores the determinants of religious giving through simulations, economic theory, and survey data. Skewness, a distinctive yet poorly understood feature of religious giving, proves to be an inevitable consequence of the weak correlation between absolute levels of income and percentage rates of giving. The weak correlation can be derived, in turn, from a formal, rational choice model of religious participation. Data from the General S…
"Callahan's vulnerability thesis and "dissatisfaction theory
(1996). Callahan's vulnerability thesis and 'dissatisfaction theory' Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 110-119
Response to Lechner
Rodney Stark, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Response to Lechner: Recent Religious Declines in Quebec, Poland, and the Netherlands: A Theory Vindicated, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 265-271
Strictness and Strength Revisited
Rejoinder to Hoge, Hadaway, and Marler
these pitfalls are standard fare, covered in any basic statistics text. Avoiding them is, or should be, high on any empirical researcher's list of concerns. Unfortunately, we often ignore the problems, and their systematic neglect may have led us to misspecify the dynamics and dimensions of church growth. At the very least, we should consider the possibility that they have contaminated our results. As long as we are going to play the game of buil…
Reassessing Church Growth
Studies of church growth have fallen prey to numerous statistical pitfalls. Flawed methods and inadequate data have reduced the predictive power of past research while systematically biasing its results. The biases work to overstate the importance of the demographic context in which a church exists and understate the importance of the church's own institutional characteristics, such as organizational strictness. This paper uses theory, simulation…
Risk, Rationality, and Religious Portfolios
This paper derives a theory of religious behavior and organization from the assumption that people seek to limit the risk associated with their religious activities. Alternative risk reduction strategies lead to different styles of religion: one centering on collective production, exclusivity, and high levels of commitment; another centering on private production, diversified consumption, and fee‐for‐service transactions. Western religions, parti…
Religions Resources and Church Growth
This article models the growth of religious organizations as a “product” derived from inputs of time and money. Using measures of church attendance and contributions as proxies for time and money resources, we predict membership growth at the levels of both individual congregations and entire denominations. Our data also highlight the tremendous variation in rates of resource mobilization across different denominations. In each of the past two de…
Second Thoughts
choice approach to religion and catalog its principal contributions. The subsequent comments, particularly those of Chaves and Demerath, suggest a need for greater clarity. The following reply addresses some apparent misunderstandings. Inevitably, a reply points back to things already said and done. For a broader, more forward-looking analysis of the rational choice approach, readers should consult the ten essays in Lawrence Young's edited volume…
Truth? A Reply to Bruce
Steve Bruce's impassioned defense of the secularization of Britain is largely irrelevant to our theory, partly because it ignores our very careful distinction between organized religious participation and subjective religiousness, and partly because it repeatedly equates religion and Christianity. As will be discussed, we did not suggest that the medieval masses were lacking in subjective religiousness. We did argue that for lack of vigorous reli…
Voodoo Economics? Reviewing the Rational Choice Approach to Religion
Une des approches de la religion utilise la notion de choix rationnel; elle a rencontre de nombreuses critiques dont beaucoup n'etaient pas fondees. L'A. defend cette notion de choix rationnel comme modele tout a fait utile pour l'etude scientifique de la religion. Ce modele permet de reunir un large eventail de resultats empiriques, de generer de nouvelles hypotheses concernant la recherche. De plus, il apparait pertinent aussi bien dans un cadr…
Religious Resources and Church Growth
Pluralism and Piety
A partir de 13 enquetes empiriques qui affirment que le pluralisme religieux a pour consequence de plus grandes frequences de participation religieuse, les AA. s'interesse a la situation religieuse en Angleterre et dans le pays de Galles d'apres le recensement de 1851. Celui-ci indique des resultats contraires. Les donnees de cette enquete sont soumises a une analyse statistique et historique. Les resultats ne viennent pas corroborer la these de …
The crucible of democracy
Why Strict Churches Are Strong
The strength of strict churches is neither a historical coincidence nor a statistical artifact. Strictness makes organizations stronger and more attractive because it reduces free riding. It screens out members who lack commitment and stimulates participation among those who remain. Rational choice theory thus explains the success of sects, cults, and conservative denominations without recourse to assumptions of irrationality, abnormality, or mis…
Sacrifice and Stigma
This paper presents an economic analysis of religious behavior that accounts for the continuing success of groups with strange requirements and seemingly inefficient prohibitions. The analysis does not presuppose any special motives for religious activity. Rather, religion is modeled as a club good that displays positive returns to "participatory crowding." The analysis demonstrates that efficient religions with perfectly rational members may ben…
A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe
We propose a theory of religious mobilization that accounts for variations in religious participation on the basis of variations in the degree of regulation of religious economies and consequent variations in their levels of religious competition. To account for the apparent 'secularization of many European nations, we stress supply-side weaknesses - inefficient religious organizations within highly regulated religious economies - rather than a l…
The Consequences of Religious Market Structure
In a largely ignored chapter of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith laid the foundation for an economic theory of religious institutions. Smith emphasized the importance of market structure, describing in detail the differences between state-sponsored religious monopolies and competitive religious markets. This article builds on Smith's discussion both theoretically and empirically. The author formalizes the concept of a religious market, defends i…
Religious Practice
This study uses the economic concepts of household production and human capital to develop and test a new model of religious participation. The model explains observed patterns in denoniinational mobility, religious intermarriage, conversion ages, the relationships between church attendance and contributions, and the influence of upbringing and interfaith marriage on levels of religious participation. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND The past few decades h…
Supply-Side Explanations for Religious Change
Traditional scholarship approaches religious history from the demand side, attributing developments to the shifting desires, perceptions, and circumstances of religious consumers. This article advocates an alternative, supply-side approach that emphasizes the opportunities and restrictions confronting religious organizations and their leaders. Supply shifts lie at the root of major religious changes in America. Colonial revivalists, Asian cult le…
Religious extremism
A Formal Model of Church and Sect
The sociology of religion is an area rich in generalizations but poor in theory. Against this background, economic models offer the hope of better theory and more precise predictions. Previous work has failed to deliver on this promise because of its narrow focus on time and money. This paper gives center stage to normative conduct, an entirely different aspect of religious activity. Churches and sects emerge as analytically distinct modes of rel…
Voodoo Economics? Reviewing the Rational Choice Approach to Religion
Une des approches de la religion utilise la notion de choix rationnel; elle a rencontre de nombreuses critiques dont beaucoup n'etaient pas fondees. L'A. defend cette notion de choix rationnel comme modele tout a fait utile pour l'etude scientifique de la religion. Ce modele permet de reunir un large eventail de resultats empiriques, de generer de nouvelles hypotheses concernant la recherche. De plus, il apparait pertinent aussi bien dans un cadr…
Student teaching
Student teaching is seen as a transitional period during which the student's perspectives undergo a radical change. The author is associate professor of education at Washington University
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly
This paper applies a general theory of why religious movements succeed or fail to explain why the Jehovah's Witnesses are the most rapidly growing religious movement in the western world. In addition to qualitative assessments of Witness doctrines, organisational structures, internal networks, and socialisation, we utilise quantitative data from a variety of sources to assess such things as the impact of failed prophesies, how “strictness”; elimi…
Skewness Explained
This paper explores the determinants of religious giving through simulations, economic theory, and survey data. Skewness, a distinctive yet poorly understood feature of religious giving, proves to be an inevitable consequence of the weak correlation between absolute levels of income and percentage rates of giving. The weak correlation can be derived, in turn, from a formal, rational choice model of religious participation. Data from the General S…
Never on Sunny Days
Congregational attendance data are abundant, accessible, and relevant for religious research. Weekly attendance histories provide information about worshippers, congregations, and denominations that surveys cannot capture. The histories yield novel measures of commitment, testable implications of rational choice theory, and compelling evidence that attendance responds strongly to changes in the opportunity cost of time
Pluralism and Piety
A partir de 13 enquetes empiriques qui affirment que le pluralisme religieux a pour consequence de plus grandes frequences de participation religieuse, les AA. s'interesse a la situation religieuse en Angleterre et dans le pays de Galles d'apres le recensement de 1851. Celui-ci indique des resultats contraires. Les donnees de cette enquete sont soumises a une analyse statistique et historique. Les resultats ne viennent pas corroborer la these de …
Accidental Atheists? Agent-Based Explanations for the Persistence of Religious Regionalism
This article outlines a new approach to the study of religious commitment. Starting with a variant on Schelling's classic model of mobility and segregation, we develop a multi-agent religion simulation (MARS) that incorporates insights from theories of religious choice, social influence, and preference formation. Compared to standard statistical methods, MARS does a better job of linking individual choices and collective outcomes. In particular, …
Religious Resources and Church Growth
Reassessing Church Growth
Studies of church growth have fallen prey to numerous statistical pitfalls. Flawed methods and inadequate data have reduced the predictive power of past research while systematically biasing its results. The biases work to overstate the importance of the demographic context in which a church exists and understate the importance of the church's own institutional characteristics, such as organizational strictness. This paper uses theory, simulation…
Response to Lechner
Rodney Stark, Laurence R. Iannaccone, Response to Lechner: Recent Religious Declines in Quebec, Poland, and the Netherlands: A Theory Vindicated, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 265-271
Religious decline in the 20th century West
The crucible of democracy
Micropolitics of Education
Educational Governance
Dealing with Social Change
Journal Article Dealing with Social Change: The Mormon Church's Response to Change in Women's Roles Get access Laurence R. Iannaccone, Laurence R. Iannaccone Santa Clara University Direct correspondence to Laurence R. Iannaccone, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95093 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carrie A. Miles Carrie A. Miles Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Management of Decline
The Field Study in Educational Policy Research
Student teaching
Student teaching is seen as a transitional period during which the student's perspectives undergo a radical change. The author is associate professor of education at Washington University
The Changing Politics of Urban Education
Urban politics is shifting from the politics of ethnics to the politics of dispersed inequalities. The two patterns differ in their base of political support, form of social power structure emerging from the base, type of leadership, and economic rewards
The Field Study in Educational Policy Research
The Management of Decline
Educational Governance
Lessons from the 11 Nations
Vice-Principal Research
A Formal Model of Church and Sect
The sociology of religion is an area rich in generalizations but poor in theory. Against this background, economic models offer the hope of better theory and more precise predictions. Previous work has failed to deliver on this promise because of its narrow focus on time and money. This paper gives center stage to normative conduct, an entirely different aspect of religious activity. Churches and sects emerge as analytically distinct modes of rel…
Dealing with Social Change
Journal Article Dealing with Social Change: The Mormon Church's Response to Change in Women's Roles Get access Laurence R. Iannaccone, Laurence R. Iannaccone Santa Clara University Direct correspondence to Laurence R. Iannaccone, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95093 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carrie A. Miles Carrie A. Miles Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Religious Practice
This study uses the economic concepts of household production and human capital to develop and test a new model of religious participation. The model explains observed patterns in denoniinational mobility, religious intermarriage, conversion ages, the relationships between church attendance and contributions, and the influence of upbringing and interfaith marriage on levels of religious participation. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND The past few decades h…
Micropolitics of Education
The Consequences of Religious Market Structure
In a largely ignored chapter of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith laid the foundation for an economic theory of religious institutions. Smith emphasized the importance of market structure, describing in detail the differences between state-sponsored religious monopolies and competitive religious markets. This article builds on Smith's discussion both theoretically and empirically. The author formalizes the concept of a religious market, defends i…
Religious Markets and the Economics of Religion
Sacrifice and Stigma
This paper presents an economic analysis of religious behavior that accounts for the continuing success of groups with strange requirements and seemingly inefficient prohibitions. The analysis does not presuppose any special motives for religious activity. Rather, religion is modeled as a club good that displays positive returns to "participatory crowding." The analysis demonstrates that efficient religions with perfectly rational members may ben…
Response to Box-Steffensmeier
With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism. Craig M. Gay
Religion
Supply-Side Explanations for Religious Change
Traditional scholarship approaches religious history from the demand side, attributing developments to the shifting desires, perceptions, and circumstances of religious consumers. This article advocates an alternative, supply-side approach that emphasizes the opportunities and restrictions confronting religious organizations and their leaders. Supply shifts lie at the root of major religious changes in America. Colonial revivalists, Asian cult le…
The crucible of democracy
A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe
We propose a theory of religious mobilization that accounts for variations in religious participation on the basis of variations in the degree of regulation of religious economies and consequent variations in their levels of religious competition. To account for the apparent 'secularization of many European nations, we stress supply-side weaknesses - inefficient religious organizations within highly regulated religious economies - rather than a l…
Why Strict Churches Are Strong
The strength of strict churches is neither a historical coincidence nor a statistical artifact. Strictness makes organizations stronger and more attractive because it reduces free riding. It screens out members who lack commitment and stimulates participation among those who remain. Rational choice theory thus explains the success of sects, cults, and conservative denominations without recourse to assumptions of irrationality, abnormality, or mis…
Risk, Rationality, and Religious Portfolios
This paper derives a theory of religious behavior and organization from the assumption that people seek to limit the risk associated with their religious activities. Alternative risk reduction strategies lead to different styles of religion: one centering on collective production, exclusivity, and high levels of commitment; another centering on private production, diversified consumption, and fee‐for‐service transactions. Western religions, parti…
Religions Resources and Church Growth
This article models the growth of religious organizations as a “product” derived from inputs of time and money. Using measures of church attendance and contributions as proxies for time and money resources, we predict membership growth at the levels of both individual congregations and entire denominations. Our data also highlight the tremendous variation in rates of resource mobilization across different denominations. In each of the past two de…
Second Thoughts
choice approach to religion and catalog its principal contributions. The subsequent comments, particularly those of Chaves and Demerath, suggest a need for greater clarity. The following reply addresses some apparent misunderstandings. Inevitably, a reply points back to things already said and done. For a broader, more forward-looking analysis of the rational choice approach, readers should consult the ten essays in Lawrence Young's edited volume…
Truth? A Reply to Bruce
Steve Bruce's impassioned defense of the secularization of Britain is largely irrelevant to our theory, partly because it ignores our very careful distinction between organized religious participation and subjective religiousness, and partly because it repeatedly equates religion and Christianity. As will be discussed, we did not suggest that the medieval masses were lacking in subjective religiousness. We did argue that for lack of vigorous reli…
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