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Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...
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s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the … impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …
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secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …
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The far-reaching consequences of failing to complete secondary schooling are well known. The central questions addressed in this study are: Does religion make a difference in the likelihood of successfully completing the transition to high-school graduation? If so, how large are the influences?...
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development of distinctively American patterns of Jewish education. The relationship between Jewish education in the United States …
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This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development … of religious education by American Jewry in the 20th century United States. The paper also discusses some implications …
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, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …, especially differences in the proportion of wage earners with tertiary education, are largely responsible for the differences in … education do not explain the aforementioned difference in average (log) earnings. In conclusion, we discuss some policy …
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and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …
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This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation...
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among Jews prompted by an educational reform in the first century CE. Based on the growing nexus between education and … Judaism in the first half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion, and …
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