Competition and the Strategic Choices of Churches
研究教堂如何受竞争对手决策影响，利用新数据集估计战略互动模型，发现同教派教堂间竞争强于不同教派，且随距离减弱。
We examine how the decisions of churches are impacted by the decisions of rival churches. Using a novel dataset, we estimate a model of strategic interaction, which accounts for the location and denomination of churches. We focus on a church's decision of whether to provide a weekday child care program. Empirical evidence indicates that churches compete more strongly with same-denomination churches than with different-denomination churches. These effects diminish with distance.