Leping Wang co-authors paper in Social Science Research

Sociology PhD candidate Leping Wang recently co-authored a paper titled “Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort” in Social Science Research. In this paper, they used longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to investigate: 1) the relationship between childhood religious environment and the likelihood of attending college; and 2) the impact of college attendance and completion on subsequent changes in
religiosity into young adulthood. They contribute to the literature on the relationship between higher education and religion a life course perspective that reveals the heterogeneity of the relationship by religious affiliations, social networks, the socio-cultural norms associated with them.

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