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Religion Affects Whether US Women Marry Early, Without Cohabiting or Having a Nonmarital Birth First

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent US cohorts, premarital sex is ubiquitous, and cohabitation typically precedes marriage. Yet many religions discourage premarital sex, which implies disapproval of cohabitation or premarital birth. Using a discrete‐time event history, we assess how religious denomination, frequency of religious service attendance, and a rich set of ...
Man Xu, Paula England
wiley   +1 more source

Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
wiley   +1 more source

The Survival of the Royals

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the effect of royal status—a historically rooted legal privilege enjoyed by hereditary monarchs and their families—on human longevity, a proxy of individuals' health capital. We disentangle the effect of royal status that encompassed serving as heads of state from that of other royal family members and compare it to their contemporary
Alberto Batinti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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