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World Religions and Human Capital Investment: The Case of Primary Education
Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics Pub Date : 2019-01-09 , DOI: 10.1177/0260107918812306
Horst Feldmann 1
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Using data on 150 countries, this article studies if and how the largest world religions have affected the extent of primary education at the national level over the period 1972–2010. Although primary education has been compulsory in most countries for at least several decades, the regression results suggest that these religions have indeed still been able to exert an influence on this type of education. Specifically, whereas Protestantism and Catholicism had a positive effect on the male primary enrolment rate, Hinduism and Buddhism had a negative effect on the female primary enrolment rate. Islam had a negative effect on both. While the magnitude of the estimated effects is small for boys, it is more substantial for girls, particularly the negative effect of Islam. The estimates are robust to endogeneity of all five religion adherence variables. They are also robust to numerous controls and variations in specification. JEL: I21, N30, O15, Z12

中文翻译:

世界宗教与人力资本投资:以初等教育为例

本文使用150个国家/地区的数据,研究了1972-2010年间最大的宗教是否以及如何影响了国家一级的初等教育程度。尽管大多数国家至少几十年来一直实行义务教育,但回归结果表明,这些宗教确实仍然能够对这种类型的教育产生影响。具体而言,新教和天主教对男性小学入学率有积极影响,而印度教和佛教对女性小学入学率有消极影响。伊斯兰教对两者都有负面影响。虽然对男孩的影响估计较小,但对女孩则更为严重,特别是伊斯兰教的负面影响。该估计值对所有五个宗教依从性变量的内生性均具有鲁棒性。它们对于多种控制和规格变化也很可靠。JEL:I21,N30,O15,Z12
更新日期:2019-01-09
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