Since When Is Greed a Surprise?
Exhibit A: The Vatican
Church-Going Boosts Economic Well-Being: Study
from Reuters
WASHINGTON - Attending religious services may enrich the soul, but it also fattens the wallet, according to research released on Tuesday.
"Doubling
the frequency of attendance leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale," Jonathan Gruber of the economics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in his study.
"Those with more faith may be less 'stressed out' about daily problems that impede success in the labor market and the marriage market, and therefore are more successful," Gruber wrote in the study, which was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Such visits correlate to higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of marriage, and lower levels of divorce, the study said.
from Reuters
WASHINGTON - Attending religious services may enrich the soul, but it also fattens the wallet, according to research released on Tuesday.
"Doubling
the frequency of attendance leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale," Jonathan Gruber of the economics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in his study."Those with more faith may be less 'stressed out' about daily problems that impede success in the labor market and the marriage market, and therefore are more successful," Gruber wrote in the study, which was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Such visits correlate to higher levels of education and income, lower levels of welfare receipt and disability, higher levels of marriage, and lower levels of divorce, the study said.
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