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Teenage Religiosity and Graduating with a STEM Degree: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship

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dc.contributor.advisor Hossein, Radmard
dc.contributor.author Stephanie, El Khoury
dc.date.accessioned 2020-09-22T11:27:11Z
dc.date.available 2020-09-22T11:27:11Z
dc.date.issued 9/22/2020
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10938/21891
dc.description.abstract The relationship between religiosity and educational achievement and attainment has long been researched in numerous fields; however, economics has not yet adequately joined that research, especially in studies revolving around STEM. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents to Adult Health (Add-Health) dataset, we seek to investigate the extent to which teenage religiosity has an impact on the decision to graduate with a STEM degree, assuming graduation in the sample. Results show that there is a curvilinear relationship between graduating STEM and teenage religiosity. Therefore, presenting a(n) (i) decrease in the odds of graduating with a STEM degree with a one-unit increase in low religiosity, (ii) increase in the odds of graduating with a STEM degree with a one-unit increase in moderate religiosity, and finally (iii) decrease in the odds of graduating with a STEM degree with a one-unit increase in high religiosity.
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject Education
dc.subject Religion
dc.subject Religiosity
dc.title Teenage Religiosity and Graduating with a STEM Degree: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship
dc.type Thesis
dc.contributor.department Department of Economics
dc.contributor.faculty Faculty of Arts and Sciences
dc.contributor.institution American University of Beirut
dc.contributor.commembers Canaan, Serena
dc.contributor.commembers Mouganie, Pierre


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