Gordon Hanson's Research Cited in Wall Street Journal Blog
Secondary Sources: Schooling and Protest, Exporting Christianity, Retirees
04/25/2011
Justin Lahart,
The Wall Street Journal
Exporting Christianity: It’s not just U.S. multinationals that have been expanding rapidly overseas. Protestant groups headquartered in the U.S. have also experienced phenomenal growth overseas over the past 40 years. Economists Gordon Hanson and Chong Xiang created a trade model to predict how a denomination’s doctrine and governance structure might help or hinder its international growth that seems to line up with what’s actually occurred. Among their findings: A strict doctrine “is more desirable in countries in which individuals are more exposed to shocks associated with natural disasters and disease outbreaks. It is less desirable in countries with better health services, a more educated population, and better developed financial markets.”
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Gordon Hanson is the director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and is a professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics.
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