externalities (social returns to education) there exists a range of microloan amounts that are growth depressing and welfare … divert investment away from human capital: by failing to internalize the social returns to education, households …

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 …

. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states …

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 …

three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …