El consumo de bienes religiosos. Una introducción económica al caso español

Abstract

This paper uses the Economic of Religion issues to explore Spanish religious behaviour. Under this microeconomic framework religious practise is considered "rational" using Azzi-Ehrenberg (1975) arguments: salvation, social and professional motives. We test if that hypotheses may explain Spanish religious activity. To this end we run descriptive and multivariate analysis that allows us to conclude the following: theoretical models well perform Spanish data; gender, ageing, family size and education are positive determinant of church-attendance; the influence of parents behaviour on children religious activity.