Religious heterogeneity and municipal spending in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9255544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jannett Highfill (0000-0001-7688-8753, Bradley University, corresponding author), Kevin O’Brien (0000-0002-0413-3076, Bradley University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 555-570 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346764.2018.1480797 |
| OpenAlex | W2895273642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
The goal of this paper is to examine the effect of religious heterogeneity on various important metro-area variables such as total expenditure, taxes, property taxes, debt, and employment as well as spending on the specific services of education, roads, police, health, and welfare. Two indices are used to measure religious heterogeneity, a fractionalization index and a polarization index. Polarization, designed to be a measure of social conflict, generally led to less spending and taxes, while fractionalization, the probability that two randomly chosen individuals belong to different religious groups, generally led to more spending and taxes
Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Fractionalization · Index (typography) · Polarization (electrochemistry) · Political science · Public economics · Social Welfare · Welfare · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Taxation and Compliance Studies
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |