Marta Palczyńska

Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education Benjamin W. Arold, Ludger Woessmann and Larissa Zierow We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that a reform abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced the religiosity of affected students in adulthood. It also reduced the religious actions of personal prayer, church-going, and church membership. Beyond religious attitudes, and consistent with a shift towards worldly norms and economic activities, the reform led to higher labor-market participation and earnings. By contrast, the reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes.

Can schools change faith? Benjamin Arold, @woessmann.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow find that ending mandatory #ReligiousEducation reduces adult #religiosity by 7%. Students earn more, work longer hours, but pray less and skip church.
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The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India (Forthcoming Article) - Over 2 billion people lack clean drinking water. Existing solutions face high costs (piped water) or low demand (point-ofuse chlorine). Using a 60,000 household cluster-randomi...

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India" by Fiona Burlig, Amir Jina, and Anant Sudarshan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Anti-LGBTQ resolutions aka "LGBT-free zones" in Poland have increased residents’ intentions to migrate, both within the country and abroad. Together with @paweladrjan.bsky.social, we use unique data on all clicks on the global job site Indeed.
Link: docs.iza.org/dp18217.pdf
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📣New #PATHS2INCLUDE working paper, using a cross-nationally harmonized factorial survey experiment designed to study the organizational context of ethnic discrimination.

Read about the experiment and its outcomes 👇 paths2include.eu/publications...

Authors: Dominik Buttler, Vegar Bjørnshagen, @martapalczynska.bsky.social, Mateusz Smoter and @imdorf.bsky.social

Our @paths2include.bsky.social project papers are on the way, but in the meantime, you can already explore our first deliverable on care-based hiring discrimination. It uses data from a survey experiment conducted in DE, NO, PL and RO. Check it out! paths2include.eu/publications...

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Do job tasks matter for the return intentions of refugees?
Read our new working paper w/ Piotr Lewandowski, Agata Górny & Mateusz Krząkała ibs.org.pl/en/publicati...
Perfect timing for the first bsky post!