Incentives in religious performance: a stochastic dominance approach García-Muñoz, Teresa Incentives Rewards Punishment Economics of religion Using a stochastic dominance approach in an international dataset of about 10,000 Catholic subjects, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a crucial role in religious practice (church attendance and prayer). Furthermore, we find that when both positive (heaven) and negative (hell) incentives are available, the former have a much stronger effect than the latter. The results are confirmed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. 2014-05-05T11:22:20Z 2014-05-05T11:22:20Z 2009 info:eu-repo/semantics/report García-Muñoz, T. Incentives in religious performance: a stochastic dominance approach. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2009). (The Papers; 09/10). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31553] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31553 eng The Papers;09/10 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica