Relações entre educação e religião : evidências no Rio Grande do Sul de 1991 à 2010.

Abstract

Since religion is embedded in a social organism, it can be considered as an informal institution and can exert influences on the levels of education of individuals. This study aims to verify these influences using the microdata from the 1991, 2000 and 2010 censuses to perform the Z Hypothesis Test for the difference between the means of study years, where it was identified that only one belief group in 1991 did not obtain a mean of years of study different from the rest of the population, for the other groups and other censuses, all had different means. The estimation of the Linear Cross-Section Regression Model by Ordinary Least Squares for each year returned the different effects of different religious groups on the variable years of study. The three-period Differentiation Method by the Model of Fixed Effects estimated the fixed effect of each belief group for twenty years, through which it was identified that some groups exert positive influences while others exert negative influences. The calculation of the R² value by Beta sampling returned values through which it was possible to consider the estimated models as useful. The analysis of the results allowed to consider the hypothesis that the variable religion can exert influence over the years of study of the individuals through the effect of the informal institutions.