Education & Religion

Religious participation rises forcefully with instruction crosswise over people, yet religious participation decays strongly with training crosswise over divisions. This riddle is clarified if training the two builds the profits to social association and lessens the degree of religious conviction. The beneficial outcome of training on friendliness clarifies the positive instruction religion relationship. The negative impact of training on religious conviction makes increasingly taught people sort into less intense religions, which clarifies the contrary connection among instruction and religion crosswise over groups. Cross-country contrasts in the effect of training on religious conviction can clarify the expansive cross-country variety in the instruction religion association. These cross-country contrasts in the instruction conviction relationship can be clarified by political components, (for example, socialism) which lead a few nations to utilize state-controlled training to ruin religion.

Reference: https://www.nber.org/papers/w8080