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1.	Kao, Han-Yen
1.	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 Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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.
	Bibliography Citation Kao, Han-Yen. "Estimating the Relationships among Education, Cognitive Ability, and Religion: Evidence from NLSY." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, April 2014.

2.	Kao, Han-Yen
2.	Experimental and Empirical Studies of Belief Formation Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Religion Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation concerns the formation and the consequences of people's beliefs and preferences. Empirically and experimentally, I focus on individuals' beliefs and ideologies through mechanisms such as group dynamics, education, and educational content. Chapter 3 estimates the causal effect of education on religiosity in the United States using NLSY97. Fixed effects and instrumental variable method are used as identification strategies. Although cross-sectional ordinary least squares estimation shows a positive correlation between religious outcomes and educational attainment, both fixed effect models and IV estimation show statistically significant negative effects of education, even when cognitive test score is controlled. This suggests that conventional OLS omits factors that push both education and religiosity.
	Bibliography Citation Kao, Han-Yen. Experimental and Empirical Studies of Belief Formation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2017.

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