Religion and Female Educational Attainment
利用97国数据，发现民族宗教、印度教和伊斯兰教信徒比例与女性教育成就负相关，性别差距也类似，为理解宗教对女性教育的影响提供了证据。
The paper reviews the literature on the education, gender, and religion nexuses and identifies plausible hypotheses that religion adversely affects female education. The link between major religions and female educational attainment is examined using the Barro‐Lee data set for a sample of 97 countries. The estimates include control variables for colonial heritage, urbanization, labor force participation, and young adult mortality. The estimates show powerful negative links between female educational attainment and the proportion of ethnoreligions, Hindu, and Muslim adherents in a country, with similar results for the gender gap. The paper offers some interpretative thoughts and research agendas.