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positive education-religion relationship. The negative effect of education on religious belief causes more educated individuals … to sort into less fervent religions, which explains the negative relationship between education and religion across …-country variation in the education-religion connection. These cross-country differences in the education-belief relationship can be …
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We present new evidence on financial literacy and retirement preparation in the Netherlands based on two surveys …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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. I find that higher levels of education lead to lower levels of religious participation later in life. An additional year … of education leads to a 4-percentage-point decline in the likelihood that an individual identifies with any religious …
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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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The relationship between teachers' characteristics and their pupils' achievement has been the subject of many studies. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training such as educational background. The effect of...
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of religion-specific, institutional, and social conventions on education and opportunity …This paper offers a comprehensive account of the intergenerational transmission of education across religious groups in … construct new upward and downward religion-specific intergenerational mobility (IM) statistics. Christian boys and girls have …
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We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …
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Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … this trend. We summarize, review, and extend existing economic theories of higher education to explain why incentives for … increase student human capital more than non-researchers. In contrast, according to signaling theory, education is not …
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We present results from the first study to examine the causal impact of early childhood education on social preferences … a series of incentivized experiments to elicit their social preferences. We find that early childhood education has a …
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