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- Title
EVIDENCE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT.
- Authors
Mueller, Charles W.
- Abstract
After arguing that previous studies have been seriously flawed in number of ways, birth cohort data from the 1973-1978 NORC General Social Surveys are used to examine the relationship between religious background and educational attainment for both males and females during the past half century. Analysis by detailed religious categories reveals that the influence of religion has not changed over time. Its influence does not operate differently for males and females, and this absence of sex differences has remained over time. A detailed comparison of protestant-Catholic differences for five-year birth cohorts beginning prior to 1908 shows no clear advantage for either and no trend in the differences. Overall, the data indicate that during this century the net influence of religious background on educational attainment has never been very large.
- Subjects
REGIONALISM &; education; RELIGION; EDUCATION; SEX differences (Biology); COHORT analysis; SOCIAL surveys
- Publication
Sociology of Education, 1980, Vol 53, Issue 3, p140
- ISSN
0038-0407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2112409