5stringJeff
Senior Member
Not that this is a good reason to start going to church, but it is interesting.
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Church-going boosts economic well-being: study
Tue Oct 25, 3:20 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...17&u=/nm/20051025/us_nm/religion_economy_dc_1
EDIT: Link to the abstract, which has a link to the paper:
http://www.nber.org/digest/oct05/w11377.html
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Church-going boosts economic well-being: study
Tue Oct 25, 3:20 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...17&u=/nm/20051025/us_nm/religion_economy_dc_1
EDIT: Link to the abstract, which has a link to the paper:
http://www.nber.org/digest/oct05/w11377.html
