Does religiosity impact on volunteer work? : evidence from sexual scandals = ¿Impacta la religiosidad en el trabajo voluntario? : evidencia a partir de escándalos sexuales

• Autores: Benedetti, Fiorella
• Año de publicación: 2011
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: tesis de grado
• Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis: Rossi, Martín A.
• Materia: Voluntarism -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Econometric models.; Church attendance -- United States -- Econometric models.; Voluntarismo -- Aspectos económicos -- Estados Unidos -- Modelos econométricos.; Iglesia -- Asistencia -- Estados Unidos -- Modelos econométricos.
• Institución: Universidad de San Andrés

Fil: Benedetti, Fiorella. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
The evaluation of causal effects of Church attendance on volunteer work is a difficult task as Church attendance is potentially endogenous in a model of volunteer work. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment: scandals of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church of the United States. We find that Church attendance increases the probability of doing voluntary work. A possible mechanism through which this effect may be operating is the increase of social networks as a result of Church attendance.