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The Wage Effects of Being Raised in the Catholic Religion: Does Religion Matter?
Author(s) -
Ewing Bradley T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/1536-7150.00035
Subject(s) - honesty , human capital , wage , trustworthiness , economics , stock market , empirical evidence , human capital theory , sociology , labour economics , stock (firearms) , efficiency wage , positive economics , social psychology , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , market economy , paleontology , horse , biology , mechanical engineering , engineering
This paper provides new empirical evidence about the existence of a Catholic wage premium. A simple allocation‐of‐time model provides two explanations for the observation that those persons raised in the Catholic religion earn more than their non‐Catholic counterparts. The Catholic religion may add to a person's stock of human capital and/or it may act as a signal of desirable labor market characteristics such as discipline, honesty, trustworthiness, and high motivation.