Religious service attendance and labour force status: evidence from survey data using count data methods

References

• Allison, P. D. and Waterman, R. P. (2002) Fixed-effects negative binomial regression models, in Sociological Methodology, Stolzenberg, R. M. (Ed), Blackwell, Washington, DC, pp. 247–65.
   Google Scholar
• Altonji, J. G. and Blank, R. (1999) Race and gender in the labor market, in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3C, Ashenfelter, O. and Card, D. (Eds), Elsevier, New York, pp. 3143–259. doi:10.1016/S1573-4463(99)30039-0
   Google Scholar
• Anderson, L., Wood, D. and Sherbourne, C. (1997) Maternal acculturation and childhood immunization levels among children in Latino families in Los Angeles, American Journal of Public Health, 87, 2018–21. doi:10.2105/AJPH.87.12.2018
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Azzi, C. and Ehrenberg, R. (1975) Household allocation of time and church attendance, Journal of Political Economy, 83, 27–56. doi:10.1086/260305
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baetschmann, G., Straub, K. E. and Winkelmann, R. (2011) Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model, Discussion Paper No. 5443, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn.
   Google Scholar
• Becker, G. S. (1965) A theory of the allocation of time, The Economic Journal, 75, 493–517. doi:10.2307/2228949
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker, P. E. and Hofmeister, H. (2001) Work, family, and religious involvement for men and women, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40, 707–22. doi:10.1111/0021-8294.00086
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bound, J., Schoenbaum, M., Stinebrickner, T. R. et al. (1998) The dynamic effects of health on the labor force transitions of older workers, NBER Working Paper No. 6777, National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.3386/w6777
   Google Scholar
• Brown, T. T. (2009) Rational praying: the economics of prayer, The Journal of Socio-Economics, 38, 37–44. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2008.07.006
   Google Scholar
• Brusentsev, V. (2006) Evolution of female labor force participation in the United States: 1967 to 2003, International Advances in Economic Research, 12, 358–73. doi:10.1007/s11294-006-9023-5
   Google Scholar
• Cameron, A. C. and Trivedi, P. K. (2010) Microeconometrics Using Stata, Rev. edn, Stata Press, College Station, TX.
   Google Scholar
• Clark, K. B., Summers, L. H., Holt, C. C. et al. (1979) Labor market dynamics and unemployment: a reconsideration, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1979, 13–72. doi:10.2307/2534304
   Google Scholar
• Collett, J. L. and Lizardo, O. (2009) A power-control theory of gender and religiosity, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 48, 213–31. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01441.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Currie, J. and Madrian, B. C. (1999) Health, health insurance and the labor market, in Handbook of Labor Economics, Ashenfelter, O. and Card, D. (Eds), Elsevier, New York. doi:10.1016/S1573-4463(99)30041-9
   Google Scholar
• DeVaus, D. A. and McAllister, I. (1987) Gender differences in religion: a test of the structural location theory, American Sociological Review, 52, 472–81. doi:10.2307/2095292
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dickerson, A., Hole, A. R. and Munford, L. (2011) A review of estimators for the fixed effects ordered logit model, in UK Stata Users Group Meeting 2011, London.
   Google Scholar
• The Economist (2009) No rush for pews; Church attendance in recessions, The Economist, U.S. ed.
   Google Scholar
• Forum, P. (2009) Is a Bad Economy Good for Church Attendance?. Pew Forum. Available at http://www.pewforum.org/2009/03/12/is-a-bad-economy-good-for-church-attendance/ (accessed 16 September 2014).
   Google Scholar
• Ghez, G. R. and Becker, G. S. (1975) Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle, National Bureau of Economic Research Books, Cambridge, MA.
   Google Scholar
• Glanville, J. L., Sikkink, D. and Hernández, E. I. (2008) Religious involvement and educational outcomes: the role of social capital and extracurricular participation, The Sociological Quarterly, 49, 105–37. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2007.00108.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Greene, W. (2007) Fixed and random effects models for count data, NYU Working Paper No. EC-07-16, Stern School of Business, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Greene, W. H. (2004) The behaviour of the maximum likelihood estimator of limited dependent variable models in the presence of fixed effects, Econometrics Journal, 7, 98–119. doi:10.1111/j.1368-423X.2004.00123.x
   Google Scholar
• Hausman, J., Hall, B. H. and Griliches, Z. (1984) Econometric models for count data with an application to the patents-R & D relationship, Econometrica, 52, 909–38. doi:10.2307/1911191
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Iannaccone, L. R. (1988) A formal model of church and sect, American Journal of Sociology, 94, SS241–SS268. doi:10.1086/228948
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Iannaccone, L. R. (1990) Religious practice: a human capital approach, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 29, 297–314. doi:10.2307/1386460
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Iannaccone, L. R. (1998) Introduction to the economics of religion, Journal of Economic Literature, 36, 1456–96.
   Google Scholar
• Iannaccone, L. R. (2006) Economy, in Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions, Ebaugh, H. R. (Ed.), Springer Science Business Media, New York, pp. 21–39.
   Google Scholar
• Johnson, G. D., Matre, M. and Armbrecht, G. (1991) Race and religiosity: an empirical evaluation of a causal model, Review of Religious Research, 32, 252–66. doi:10.2307/3511210
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kelley-Moore, J. A. and Ferraro, K. F. (2001) Functional limitations and religious service attendance in later life: barrier and/or benefit mechanism? The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 56, S365–S373. doi:10.1093/geronb/56.6.S365
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Killingsworth, M. R. and Heckman, J. J. (1986) Female labor supply: a survey, in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 1, Ashenfelter, O. and Layard, R. (Eds), North-Holland, New York, pp. 103–204. doi:10.1016/S1573-4463(86)01005-2
   Google Scholar
• Lehrer, E. L. (2004) Religion as a determinant of economic and demographic behavior in the United States, Population and Development Review, 30, 707–26. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4457.2004.00038.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miller, A. S. and Hoffman, J. P. (1995) Risk and religion: an explanation of gender differences in religiosity, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 34, 63–75. doi:10.2307/1386523
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miller, L. (2010) No Atheists in Foxholes; And other myths of the recession, Newsweek, p. 29.
   Google Scholar
• Muller, C. and Ellison, C. G. (2001) Religious involvement, social capital, and adolescents’ academic progress: evidence from the national education longitudinal study of 1988, Sociological Focus, 34, 155–83. doi:10.1080/00380237.2001.10571189
   Google Scholar
• Musick, M. A., House, J. S. and Williams, D. R. (2004) Attendance at religious services and mortality in a national sample, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45, 198–213. doi:10.1177/002214650404500206
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pencavel, J. (1986) Labor supply of men: a survey, in Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 1, Ashenfelter, O. and Layard, R. (Eds), North-Holland, New York, pp. 3–102. doi:10.1016/S1573-4463(86)01004-0
   Google Scholar
• Presser, S. and Chaves, M. (2007) Is religious service attendance declining? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 46, 417–23. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5906.2007.00367.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sacerdote, B. and Glaeser, E. L. (2001) Education and religion, Working Paper No. 8080, National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.3386/w8080
   Google Scholar
• Smith, C. (2009) Souls in Transition: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults, Oxford University Press, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Smith-Lovin, L. and Tickamyer, A. R. (1978) Nonrecursive models of labor force participation, fertility behavior and sex role attitudes, American Sociological Review, 43, 541–57. doi:10.2307/2094778
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soydemir, G. A., Bastida, E. and Gonzalez, G. (2004) The impact of religiosity on self-assessments of health and happiness: evidence from the US Southwest, Southwest, Applied Economics, 36, 665–72. doi:10.1080/0003684042000222052
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thompson Jr., E. H. (1991) Beneath the status characteristic: gender variations in religiousness, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 30, 381–94. doi:10.2307/1387275
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Toosi, M. (2010) Labor force projections to 2018: older workers staying more active, Monthly Labor Review Online. Available at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/11/art3full.pdf (accessed 16 September 2014).
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ulbrich, H. and Wallace, M. (1984) Women’s work force status and church attendance, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 23, 341–50. doi:10.2307/1385723
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar