PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE: THE EFFECTS OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOSITY

Danny Cohen-Zada () and William Sander
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Danny Cohen-Zada: BGU
William Sander: Department of Economics, DePaul University, Chicago

No 601, Working Papers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics

Abstract: The effects of religion and religiosity on the demand for private schooling are considered both theoretically and empirically. Probit estimates of private school attendance and multinomial logit estimates of attendance at different types of private schools including Catholic schools, Protestant schools, and nonsectarian private schools are undertaken. It is shown that both religion and religiosity have important effects on the demand for the different types of private schools. Further, it is shown that if religiosity is not taken into account (the usual case), the effect of religion on demand is biased. The effects of race, ethnicity, family background, and location on the demand for private schooling are also considered. Data from the National Opinion Research Center’s “General Social Survey” are used.

Keywords: School choice; demand for schooling; religious education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J15 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2006
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