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Income, Education, And Three Dimensions Of Religiosity In The USA

Document Type

Article

Keywords

American Time Use Survey, D01, J22, religion, religiosity, two-part model, Z12

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Eastern Economic Journal

Volume

44

Issue

4

First Page

501

Last Page

518

Abstract

We use American Time Use Survey data and a two-part econometric model to investigate the relationship of income and education to religiosity in the USA. We find some evidence that people are less likely to be religious as their income increases and that religious people spend less time performing religious activities as their incomes rise. The effect of additional education is ambiguous. We also find that while women are more likely to be religious than men and immigrants are more likely to be religious than natives, among religious people there is no significant difference in religiosity by gender or origin.

Department

Department of Economics

Original Publication Date

9-1-2018

DOI of published version

10.1057/s41302-017-0101-6

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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