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Direct linkWoodberry, Robert D.; Park, Jerry Z.; Kellstedt, Lyman A.; Regnerus, Mark D.; Steensland, Brian – Social Forces, 2012
Our original article espoused a simple way to recode religious groups on the General Social Survey (GSS) into historically meaningful categories and attempted to steer social scientists away from assigning these groups to a "Liberal-Moderate-Conservative" scale (Smith 1990). Among other problems, such scales create arbitrary cutpoints,…
Descriptors: Protestants, Religion, Religious Factors, Measurement
Sander, William – Economics of Education Review, 2010
The effects of Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism on educational attainment in the United States are examined. OLS estimates of educational attainment and Probit estimates of college attainment are undertaken. It is shown that Islam and Judaism have similar positive effects on attainment relative to Protestants and Catholics. The effect of Buddhism is…
Descriptors: Protestants, Judaism, Islam, Educational Attainment
