The Effect of Income on Religiousness
利用厄瓜多尔政府现金转移的资格标准变化作为外生收入变动，通过断点回归估计收入对宗教行为的影响，发现收入增加会提高教堂出席率并改变教派归属。
How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behavior. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate causal effects. We find significant effects of income on religiousness. Families that earn more go to church more often. Families that earn more are also more likely to be members of an Evangelical community rather than of the mainstream Catholic Church.