Human capital affects religious identity: causal evidence from Kenya

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/24:10482531 RIV/00216208:11640/24:00604599
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103215" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103215</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103215" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103215</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human capital affects religious identity: causal evidence from Kenya
Original language description
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously boosted education and living standards. The main finding is that the program reduces the likelihood of membership in a Pentecostal denomination up to 20 years later, when respondents are in their mid-thirties, while there is a comparable increase in membership in traditional Christian denominations. The effect is concentrated and statistically significant among a sub-group of participants who benefited most from the program in terms of increased education and income. The effects are unlikely due to increased secularization because the program does not reduce measures of religiosity. The results help explain why the global growth of the Pentecostal movement, sometimes described as a “New Reformation”, is centered in low-income communities.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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