The economics of regional variation in religious attendance

Applied Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1577-1588

  Smith, Ian ^a   Sawkins, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELIGION;

EID: 0242582217     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684032000129363     Document Type: Article

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