Religion as a Determinant of Educational Attainment: An Economic Perspective

In-home firearm access among US adolescents and the role of religious subculture: Results from a nationally representative study

“…This finding complicates research on the effects of religion on adolescent health and safety risk factors, which generally finds protective effects of religious involvement and conservative religious groups Hill et al 2009;Dew et al 2008;Manglos 2013;Adamczyk and Felson 2012;Adamczyk and Palmer 2008;Wallace and Forman 1998;Harker 2001;Borowsky, Ireland, and Resnick 2001;Regnerus 2003). This study also adds to a growing body of research showing the importance of religious subcultures for life chances and the unfavorable influence of conservative Protestantism and conservative religious beliefs for a number of outcomes, extending this literature to the arena of an important health and safety risk factor (Cline and Ferraro 2006;Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Fitzgerald and Glass 2008;Glass and Jacobs 2005;Keister 2008;Massengill 2008;Sherkat and Darnell 1999;Emerson and Smith 2000;Ellison, Burr, and Mccall 2003;Sherkat 2010Sherkat , 2012Stroope, Franzen, and Uecker 2015;Uecker 2014;Lehrer 1999). 16 Catholic and Mainline Protestant interactions with religious attendance were marginally significant (p<.10).…”

Religião E Sucesso Escolar Na Rede Municipal Do Rio De Janeiro

“…In this sense, it could be viewed as a form of social integration whose consequences may be the reinforcement of values leading to an improved educational performance (CUNHA; RIOS-NETO; OLIVEIRA, 2014;LEHRER, 1999LEHRER, , 2004. Cunha, RiosNeto and Oliveira (2014), analyzing data from the longitudinal research conducted by CEDEPLAR/UFMG between 2007 and 2010, involving high school youths from some cities in Minas Gerais, investigated the relation between religion and educational performance, showing the importance of religion for studying education in Brazil, particularly considering changes in the Brazilian population religious composition in the past decades.…”

“…Given the interest in knowing better what takes place in the family environment, which may affect the schooling process, we have investigated how the family's belonging to a certain religious group may influence the student's academic success. Although this topic has been little explored, recent research in Brazil (CUNHA; RIOS-NETO; OLIVEIRA, 2014) and several international researches (GLANVILLE; SIKKINK; HERNÁNDEZ, 2008;LEHRER, 1999;among others) have highlighted the importance of religion in educational performance studies. This article is designed to contribute to this discussion in the Brazilian case.…”

Religion and Inequality: The Role of Status Attainment and Social Balance Processes

“…However, although contemporary research is empirically rich, it has paid relatively little attention to the causal processes linking religion and material outcomes. Modern data provide powerful evidence that religion affects education for adults (Chiswick 1988;Darnell and Sherkat 1997;Lehrer 1999bLehrer , 2004 and adolescents (Muller and Ellison 2001;Sherkat and Darnell 1999), gender roles in the home (Ellison and Bartkowski 2002;Read 2004) and in the labor market (Lehrer 1999a(Lehrer , 2000Sherkat and Darnell 1999), fertility and family formation (Glass and Jacobs 2005;Lehrer 1996bLehrer , 1996cMcQuillan 2004), wages (Keister 2010;Smith and Faris 2005;Steen 1996;Wilder and Walters 1998), work and occupational outcomes (Smith and Faris 2005), and saving behavior and wealth (Crowe 2008;Keister 2003Keister , 2007Keister , 2008. Researchers have understandably taken advantage of modern data and methods to provide careful empirical support for key relationships that eluded prior generations of scholars.…”