Reuters has reported that an MIT study indicates that "
Church-going boosts economic well-being." The report says,
"Doubling the frequency of attendance leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale," Jonathan Gruber of the economics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in his study.
The report, however, focused only on white persons 25 years of age and older:
Gruber says he focused on non-Hispanic whites aged 25 or older because "there is very strong evidence of racial segregation in church-going, so that the density of Hispanics or non-whites in a religion in some area is not likely to be relevant for the religious participation of whites in that area."
Is it not shameful to the church for economists to still be observing that, "there is very strong evidence of racial segregation in church-going?"
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