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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w15182
来源ID	Working Paper 15182
	Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity
	Miles S. Kimball; Colter M. Mitchell; Arland D. Thornton; Linda C. Young-Demarco
发表日期	2009-07-23
出版年	2009
语种	英语
摘要	Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using panel data from the Monitoring the Future survey as a way of gauging the extent to which various streams of thought, as taught in college, affect religiosity. Two key questions, based on the differences in college experience across majors, are whether either (a) the Scientific worldview or (b) Postmodernism has negative effects on religiosity as these streams of thought are actually transmitted at the college level. The results show a decline in religiosity of students majoring in the social sciences and humanities, but a rise in religiosity for those in education and business. After initial choices, those respondents with high levels of religiosity are more likely to enter college. Of those who are in college, people with high levels of religiosity tend to go into the humanities and education over other majors.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Culture
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w15182
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572858
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Miles S. Kimball,Colter M. Mitchell,Arland D. Thornton,et al. Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity. 2009.

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