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Laurence Iannaccone

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PhD Economics University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Laurence Robert Iannaccone is a Professor of Economics at Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Orange County, California. Before moving to Chapman in 2009 he was a Koch Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He has established "Religion, Economics, and Culture", an interdisciplinary "Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture" , and a new "Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion" . He is currently working on two books on the economics of religion. He is considered one of the pioneers of the field, and one of its most staunch advocates.

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Laurence Iannaccone's Published Works

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Introduction to the Economics of Religion (1998) (1704)
Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives (1992) (1118)
Why Strict Churches Are Strong (1994) (1077)
A supply-side reinterpretation of the secularization' of Europe (1994) (720)
The Consequences of Religious Market Structure (1991) (588)
A Formal Model of Church and Sect (1988) (321)
Religious extremism: The good, the bad, and the deadly (2005) (314)
Supply-Side Explanations for Religious Change (1993) (275)
Religious Markets and the Economics of Religion (1992) (262)
Deregulating religion: the economics of church and state (1997) (240)
Voodoo economics? Reviewing the rational choice approach to religion : Symposium on the rational choice approach to religion (1995) (207)
RISK, RATIONALITY, AND RELIGIOUS PORTFOLIOS (1995) (144)
Religion, Science, and Rationality (1996) (142)
Religions Resources and Church Growth (1995) (131)
Why the Jehovah's witnesses grow so rapidly: A theoretical application (1997) (130)
Corrigenda [Do People Play Nash Equilibrium? Lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory] (1998) (129)
Addiction and satiation (1986) (110)
Secularization in the Netherlands ? Authors's replies (1996) (105)
The Market for Martyrs (2006) (103)
Pluralism and piety : England and Wales, 1851 (1995) (92)
Rationality and the "Religious Mind." (1998) (91)
Student teaching: A transitional stage in the making of a teacher (1963) (84)
Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs (2010) (79)
Skewness explained : A rational choice model of religious giving (1997) (73)
Politics in education (1967) (60)
Micropolitics of Education (1991) (60)
SPIRITUAL CAPITAL: An Introduction and Literature Review * (2003) (59)
Religious decline in the 20th century West: testing alternative explanations (2014) (59)
3. The crucible of democracy: the local arena (1994) (55)
Toward an Economic Theory of "Fundamentalism" (1997) (52)
Dealing with Social Change: The Mormon Church's Response to Change in Women's Roles (1990) (49)
Never on Sunny Days: Lessons from Weekly Attendance Counts (2004) (46)
Lessons from Delphi: Religious markets and spiritual capitals (2011) (46)
Accidental Atheists? Agent-Based Explanations for the Persistence of Religious Regionalism (2007) (46)
Understanding educational organizations : a field study approach (1972) (42)
Response to Lechner: Recent Religious Declines in Quebec, Poland, and the Netherlands: A Theory Vindicated (1996) (41)
Public participation in local school districts : the dissatisfaction theory of democracy (1978) (39)
Bandwagons and the threat of chaos: Interpersonal effects revisited☆ (1989) (32)
FROM EMPTY PEWS TO EMPTY CRADLES: FERTILITY DECLINE AMONG EUROPEAN CATHOLICS (2012) (32)
Educational Governance (1980) (32)
The new economics of human behavior: Household production, human capital, and the economics of religion (1995) (31)
Second Thoughts: A Response to Chaves, Demerath, and Ellison (1995) (25)
The Dissatisfaction Theory of American Democracy: A Guide for Politics in Local School Districts. (1986) (20)
The Reagan Presidency (1981) (19)
The Management of Decline (1979) (19)
FUNCTIONS OF STUDENT TEACHING, ATTITUDE FORMATION, AND INITIATION IN ELEMENTARY STUDENT TEACHING. (1964) (19)
Truth? A Reply to Bruce (1995) (18)
Progress in the Economics of Religion (2016) (16)
The Economics of Religion: A Survey of Recent Work (1991) (14)
The Field Study in Educational Policy Research (1975) (13)
Religious extremism: Origins and consequences (1999) (12)
Extremism and the Economics of Religion (2012) (12)
Callahan's vulnerability thesis and "dissatisfaction theory" (1996) (11)
High Performing Curriculum And Instructional Leadership in the Climate of Excellence (1985) (11)
Socialization Research in Administration, Graduate School, and Other Professions: The Heuristic Power of Van Gennep and Becker Models. (1989) (10)
Vice-Principal Research (1985) (9)
Chapter IX: Three Views of Change in Educational Politics (1977) (8)
Dimensions of administrative performance (1961) (7)
Strictness and Strength Revisited: Reply to Marwell (1996) (7)
The Changing Politics of Urban Education (1971) (7)
Administrative Theory, Relationships, and Preparation (1958) (7)
Interdisciplinary Theory Guided Research in Educational Administration: A Smoggy View from the Valley (1973) (6)
Rejoinder to Hoge, Hadaway, and Marler: Pitfalls Revisited (1996) (6)
Funding the Faiths: Toward a Theory of Religious Finance (2009) (6)
Superintendents Make a Difference. (1981) (5)
The Economics of Religion: Invest Now, Repent Later? (2010) (5)
Political Legitimacy and the Administration of Education. ESA841 Theory and Practice in Educational Administration. (1984) (4)
Faith beyond time: the future of religion in America (2004) (4)
Response to Box-Steffensmeier (1992) (4)
The Politics of Education. ERIC/CEM State-of-the-Knowledge Series, Number 20. (1974) (3)
Problems in legislation as a vehicle for educational change (1981) (3)
Reviewing the Reviews on Literacy and Reasoning: Some Selected Themes and References (1984) (3)
Selected Social Power Relationships in Education (1966) (3)
Religion@@@The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. (1993) (2)
CHAPTER 13 – Lessons from the 11 Nations (1983) (2)
God games: An experimental study of uncertainty, superstition, and cooperation (2023) (1)
Educational Administration and the Challenge of Change: Politics, Power and Policy. (1984) (1)
Problems of Financing Inner City Schools. Political, Social, and Cultural Constraints upon Financing Improved Urban Education and Proposals to Overcome Them. (1971) (1)
Lutz, Frank W., and Lawrence Iannaccone, Understanding Educational Organizations: A Field Study Approach . Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1969. (1969) (1)
Quasi-Myopic Habit-Formation (2011) (0)
Editorial: The AERA Governmental and Professional Liaison Program (1977) (0)
Review of Behavioral science frontiers in education. (1969) (0)
Ferment in the Study of Organization1 (1958) (0)
New Studies (1973) (0)
Working paper – not for quotation ] Religion , Values , and Behavioral Constraint (0)
Access and Legitimacy in School-Community Relations. (1977) (0)
What's Good About Religious Fundamentalism? (2007) (0)
Working Papers / Documents de travail (2019) (0)
The Changing Politics o f Urban Education. (1971) (0)
Religious decline in the 20th century West: testing alternative explanations (2013) (0)
Preliminary and incomplete—do not circulate, quote or cite (2013) (0)
Cooperation Through Unproductive Costs (2013) (0)
Funding the Faiths (2011) (0)
Book Review:With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism. Craig M. Gay (1992) (0)
Chapter IV: Administrative Theory, Relationships, and Preparation (1958) (0)
An Academic Field Model for the Preparation of Educational Administrators. (1973) (0)
Using Research in School Reform. (1976) (0)

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