Hierarchical Religions and Female Education
基于97国面板数据，研究等级制宗教对女性教育的影响，发现印度教和穆斯林人口比例对女性教育有负面效应，并扩大了性别差距。
The paper examines education, gender, and hierarchical religions, building on work by La Porta and colleagues, who document perverse economic effects for hierarchical religions. Using the Barro-Lee data set for 97 countries and including religion and control variables, we find few effects for hierarchical religions on female education but negative effects on female education and the gender gap for the proportions of ethnoreligious, Hindu, and Muslim adherents in the sample countries. Similar results hold for panel data for 1970–99. The paper offers some interpretative thoughts and research agendas.