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Title: Estimating the Relationships among Education, Cognitive Ability, and Religion: Evidence from NLSY
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1. Kao, Han-Yen
Estimating the Relationships among Education, Cognitive Ability, and Religion: Evidence from NLSY
Working Paper, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, April 2014.
Also: http://economics.rutgers.edu/dmdocuments/Han-YenKao.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Department of Economics, Rutgers University
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; Educational Attainment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Religion

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This paper estimates the effect of education on religion in the United States using NLSY97. I include educational attainment, cognitive ability, and variables measuring religious attendance and beliefs to investigate the relationships among them. I use fixed effect models to find the impact of educational attainment on religion, as well as subsamples grouped by control variables including AFQT scores. While there is a positive relationship between religious attendance and schooling years and highest degrees in cross-sectional OLS estimation, fixed effect estimates show negative results. This suggests that simple OLS omits some factors that push both education and religion. Cognitive ability, represented by AFQT score, has little correlation with church attendance, but it has a negative relationship with the index of religious beliefs.
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Kao, Han-Yen. "Estimating the Relationships among Education, Cognitive Ability, and Religion: Evidence from NLSY." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, April 2014.