Religion and high-school graduation: a comparative analysis of patterns for white and black young women

Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, vol. 4, issue 3, pages 277-293

Abstract: This paper examines how two dimensions of childhood religion—affiliation and participation—are related to the probability of graduating from high school. Hypotheses derived from a human capital model are tested with data on non-Hispanic white and black women from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. The empirical findings are generally consistent with the hypotheses, revealing sizeable differentials in the likelihood of obtaining a high-school diploma by affiliation and participation. The results suggest that the convergence of Catholics to the mainline Protestant pattern for non-Hispanic whites found here, and supported by many previous studies, has not taken place in the black population. In other respects, the relationships between religion and high-school graduation are similar for the two racial groups. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006

Keywords: Religion; Education; High-school dropout; High-school graduation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006

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