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Title: Mom and Dad Took Me to Church: Religion and Educational Attainment
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Orman, Wafa Hakim North, Charles M. Gwin, Carl R. |
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Mom and Dad Took Me to Church: Religion and Educational Attainment Presented: Washington, DC, Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Religion; Siblings We look at data from the two waves of the Baylor Survey taken in the spring of 2005 and the fall of 2006, and from the NLSY79 Child/Young Adult Survey to see the effects of parental and personal religious attendance on educational outcomes. Preliminary results from the Baylor Surveys show that parents are a lot more likely to go to church than people with no children; and better-educated people generally had parents who attended church services twice a month or more. We then look at the Child/Young Adult Survey of the NLSY79, and find that, controlling for mother and family effects, educational outcomes are increasing in religious attendance, but this effect weakens for higher levels of mother's education. |
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Orman, Wafa Hakim, Charles M. North and Carl R. Gwin. "Mom and Dad Took Me to Church: Religion and Educational Attainment." Presented: Washington, DC, Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 2008. |