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Faith and Money : How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty.
This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figure and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Religion and Wealth; A Challenging Question; Does Religion Matter?; Formative Studies and Theoretical Foundations; A Note on Data and Definitions; Data Sources; An Important Note about Current Data; Definitions and Reporting; The American Religious Landscape; Religion and Wealth; 2 Family and Human Capital Processes; The Importance of Background: Linking Origins with Outcomes; Childhood Family Size and Structure; Race and Ethnicity; Human Capital; Adult Processes; Marriage Processes and Wealth.
- Fertility and WealthSimultaneous Processes; 3 Work, Occupation, and Income; Religion, Work, and Occupation; Orientations toward Work; Religion and Income; Orientations toward Money; 4 Wealth I; Net Worth and Real Assets; Asset Poverty; High Net Worth; Portfolio Behavior; Financial Trajectories; Homeownership; Home Values; Home Equity; Summary and Concluding Thoughts; 5 Wealth II; Financial Assets; Low and High Financial Assets; The Allocation of Financial Assets, Part I: The Working Years; The Allocation of Financial Assets, Part II: Retirement; Financial Asset Values; Liabilities.
- Bringing It All Together: Predictors of Family BackgroundBringing It All Together: Predictors of Adult Wealth; 6 Upward Mobility; Mobility Accomplished: White Catholics since the 1980s; Mobility in Progress? Conservative Protestants May Be Changing; Potential for Mobility: Hispanic Catholics and Assimilation; Rising Tides or Trading Places?; 7 Notable Achievement; Mainline Protestants: A History of High SES; Jews: Notably High Achievement; Levels of Achievement; Explaining Jewish Achievement; LDS: Unique among Conservative Protestants?; 8 A Truly Complex Relationship; Religiosity.
- Charitable GivingSocial Capital and Network Traits; Investing in Religion; Gender and Intermarriage; Health; Nonstandard Work; Entrepreneurship; Saving; Consumption; Financial Literacy; Risk Preferences; Downward Mobility; 9 How Much Is Enough?; How Much Do You Really Need?; Religion and Having Enough; Conclusions; Appendix; Multivariate Model Details; Works Cited; Index.