Does Wealth Imply Secularization and Longevity?
构建了一个内生寿命的生命周期模型，分析宗教企业如何通过捐赠影响信仰，发现财富与经济发展或宗教竞争可解释各国信仰差异，但解释寿命和消费差异需要两者共同作用。
We develop a simple life cycle model with endogenous longevity where religious firms influence religious beliefs using donations as an input. The model suggests that either wealth and economic development or competition by religious firms can explain cross‐country variation in religious beliefs, but to explain cross‐country variation in religious beliefs, longevity, and consumption both development and competition are required. Our results depend on the wealth and substitution effects that accompany economic development and religious market competition.