Dynamic models of religious conformity and conversion: theory and calibration

Abstract: "This paper develops behavioral and deterministic overlapping generations models to explain and simulate changes in the proportion of secular and religious people. Under the behavioral approach, the role of the church is to generate an externality associated with the investment in enhancing the conformity rate among young believers. Under the deterministic approach, changes in the number of nonbelievers are explained by different birth rates among secular and religious parents as well as the relative proportion of nonconformists among the young in each group. This model is then used to calibrate for (non)conformity rates among secular and religious people." (author's abstract)

Alternative title
Dynamische Modelle religiöser Konformität und Konversion: Theorie und Simulationen
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 32 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und politische Ökonomie, Abteilung Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und industrieller Wandel ; Bd. 2005-12

Classification
Religion, Religionsphilosophie
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Keyword
Religion
Bildungsverhalten
Overlapping Generations
Kirche
Konsuminterdependenz
Theorie
Soziale Norm
Religion
Bildungsverhalten
Mehrgenerationenmodell
Kirche
Nachfrageinterdependenz
Soziale Norm

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2005
Creator
Contributor
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-117066
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Last update
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Associated

  • Shy, Oz
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Time of origin

  • 2005

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