Protestants and Catholics and Educational Investment in Guatemala

Rachel M. McCleary () and Robert Barro
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Rachel M. McCleary: Harvard University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Advances in the Economics of Religion, 2019, pp 169-195 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Recent empirical research on the relation of religion to human capital has focused on the distinction between Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism. Our research emphasizes differential investment in education across types of Protestantism. We apply this framework to Guatemala, a country that was historically dominated by Catholicism but has moved in recent decades toward Protestantism. Our research was motivated by theological differences between Mainline Protestant denominations and premillennialist movements (Evangelical, Pentecostal) that arose at the end of the nineteenth century. These denominations placed less emphasis than Mainline Protestants on investment in education. Consistent with this perspective, literacy is enhanced more by Mainline Protestant schools than by other Protestant schools. Catholic schools have the weakest relation with literacy, likely because the ouster of Catholic orders and schools in the liberal reforms of the 1870s had a lasting influence.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1_11

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