Examining megachurch growth: free riding, fit, and faith

Examining Growth: Religious Motivation and Megachurch Behavior

Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...

Free Riding and Ethnic Heterogeneity∗

This paper provides a new explanation for the observed differences in the levels of public good provision in heterogeneous societies compared to the homogeneous counterparts. Consider a voluntary public good provision problem where egalitarian social norms impose income redistribution between agents: rich individuals are forced to share part of their wealth with their poor relatives. However, s...

Epistemic Free Riding

In epistemology and philosophy of science there has been a growing interest in group inquiry and ways that it might differ fundamentally from individual inquiry. The interest in this topic is understandable. Science is predominately collaborative work. If we want to understand the epistemic success of science, we need to understand group inquiry and it is an important part of this to learn whet...

Free Riding on Gnutella

An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows a significant amount of free riding in the system. By sampling messages on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, we established that 70% of Gnutella users share no files, and 90% of the users answer no queries. Furthermore, we found out that free riding is distributed evenly between domains, so that no one group contributes significa...