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the denomination-level connection between education and religion has the opposite sign of the individual-level connection between these variables. A switch in the sign of a coefficient between individual-level and group-level regressions occurs when there is omitted factor that differs across groups. If this omitted factor has the same
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Dec 13, 2016 · While this chapter looks at the impact of religion on education, there are also theories on education’s impact on religion – perhaps most notably, that high educational attainment could potentially lead to a shedding of religious identity. If this is true, one might expect higher percentages of religiously unaffiliated people in parts of the world with high educational attainment.
Aug 1, 2014 · While some prior work has suggested that the relationship between religion and education is likely confounded by omitted characteristics, there is no prior study which rigorously attempts to determine the direct relationship between education and religion and thus, implicitly, the first-order relationship between the confounding factors and, education and religion.
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Feb 1, 2024 · The MRC research team set out to illuminate the complicated relationship between education and religion using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY97), which first surveyed youth aged 13–17 in 1997 and re-interviewed them periodically. By 2017, the NLSY97 participants were in their 30s, which means most had already ...
Jun 1, 2008 · factor explaining church attendance. ... completely opposite relationship between education and religion at the individual and the ... the positive relationship may exist because omitted variables ...
Apr 26, 2017 · 1 And a new analysis of Pew Research Center surveys shows that the relationship between religion and education in the United States is not so simple. On one hand, among U.S. adults overall, higher levels of education are linked with lower levels of religious commitment by some measures, such as belief in God, how often people pray and how important they say religion is to them.
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Oct 4, 2020 · This article examines existing literature about the relationship between religion and educational outcomes. This review proceeds in four phases: (1) identifying the broad mechanisms through which religion may affect people’s educational outcomes, (2) identifying how religion is commonly operationalized and measured (3) identifying commonly measured academic outcomes, and (4) searching the ...