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August 12, 2009

Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity

National Bureau of Economic Research.
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"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."
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August 10, 2009

JSTOR Data for Research

JSTOR.
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Still in beta testing (August 2009), this service enables researchers to analyze the content of the JSTOR database, including data on word frequencies, publication patterns, key terms, and more. The downloading of data sets is not yet available. Some interesting terms to try:


  • "soccer moms"

  • negroes

  • "afro americans"

  • "african americans"


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