Education and religious decline: evidence from the Canadian compulsory schooling laws

Dilmaghani, Maryam

doi:10.1080/09645292.2019.1580349

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“…Another area of progress involves natural experiments that are better able to estimate the causal effect of education. Hungerman (2014) and Dilmaghani (2019) have studied changes in compulsory schooling in Canada, where the compulsory school-leaving age was raised from 15 to 16, 17, or 18 years of age in different provinces between 1980 and 2001. These reforms can be seen as social experiments in which a randomly assigned treatment group with more years of schooling can be compared to a control group with fewer years of schooling.…”

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Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems. Presidential address

Stolz

2020

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This article argues that quantitative secularization research has made important progress in the last 20 years in seven areas. We have gained knowledge of how religion and religiosity are connected to insecurity, education, socialization, secular transition, secular competition, pluralism, and regulation. This has led to a better understanding of the causes and the form of the secularization process. In this article, the author discusses the new ideas that have led to these advances, the evidence that supports the claims, and the new problems that have appeared due to the progress made.

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Section: Educationmentioning

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Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems. Presidential address

Stolz

2020

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“…Figure 4 challenges this view by showing scatter plots of the three alternative proxies of cultural values and gender segregation at national level (dissimilarity index) in 2012. Religiosity is negatively correlated with segregation, meaning that in less gender-egalitarian and more religious societies, 9 Dilmaghani (2019) founds a causal link between education and religious unaffiliation. Applying this evidence to the case of gender segregation, one might consider the extent to which the advancement of women in higher education might lead to lower religiosity levels in coming generations.…”

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Graduates’ Opium? Cultural Values, Religiosity and Gender Segregation by Field of Study

Zuazu¹

2020

Social Sciences

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This paper studies the relationship between cultural values and gender distribution across fields of study in higher education. I compute national, field and subfield-level gender segregation indices for a panel dataset of 26 OECD countries for 1998–2012. This panel dataset expands the focus of previous macro-level research by exploiting data on gender segregation in specific subfields of study. Fixed-effects estimates associate higher country-level religiosity with lower gender segregation in higher education. These models crucially control for potential segregation factors, such as labor market and educational institutions, and gender gaps in both self-beliefs and academic performance in math among young people.

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“…But, Canadian nones have been persistently more likely to reside in the western provinces, especially British Columbia (Veevers, 1990;Wilkins-Laflamme, 2014), while nominal affiliation has been much more prevalent in the eastern provinces (Bibby, 2006;Dilmaghani, 2018c). Compared with Protestant denominations, affiliation with Catholicism has remained more stable in Canada, especially in francophone Quebec (Bibby, 2007;Clarke and Macdonald, 2011;Hungerman, 2014;Dilmaghani, 2019b).…”

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Who is Not Afraid of Richard Dawkins? Using Google Trends to Assess the Reach of Influential Atheists across Canadian Secular Groups

Dilmaghani

2019

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

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Google Trends data on search volumes of high profile atheist public figures are used to assess their relative reach among different types of seculars in Canada. The user query data mined from Google Trends are complemented with an extensive set of information extracted from the Canadian General Social Surveys of 2005 to 2016. The analysis shows that the reach of high profile atheists is positively correlated with the presence of strictly-seculars, a proxy for the atheists. The investigation produces no statistically significant correlation between the presence of other types of seculars, namely the unchurched believers and the nominal affiliates, and the search volumes for high profile atheists. This exploratory finding suggests that the influential atheists likely “preach to the choir,” catering to like-minded individuals, at the exclusion of those with relatively close but differing views on religion and spirituality.

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Education and religious decline: evidence from the Canadian compulsory schooling laws

Cited by 15 publications

References 93 publications

Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems. Presidential address

Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems. Presidential address

Graduates’ Opium? Cultural Values, Religiosity and Gender Segregation by Field of Study

Who is Not Afraid of Richard Dawkins? Using Google Trends to Assess the Reach of Influential Atheists across Canadian Secular Groups

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