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Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote?
Alan Gerber
Jonathan Gruber
Daniel M. Hungerman
其他書名
Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2008
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wD5ZAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity ("blue laws") to measure the effects of church-going on political participation. The repeal of blue laws caused a 5 percent decrease in church attendance. We measure the effect of blue laws' repeal on political participation and find that following the repeal turnout falls by approximately 1 percentage point. This turnout decline, which is statistically significant and fairly robust across model specifications, is consistent with the large effect of church attendance on turnout reported in the literature, and suggests that church attendance may have significant causal influence on voter turnout.
