A method for proxying a respondent's religious background: an application to school choice decisions.

This paper develops an algorithm for the probability distribution of a respondent's religion in microdata (including the decennial census) in which there are data on ancestry but not on religion. A frequency distribution of religion by ancestry is generated from the General Social Survey and matche...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Human Resources Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 193 - 208
Autores principales:	Hofrenning, Stella Koutroumanes, Chiswick, Barry R.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Wisconsin Press Winter99
Materias:	School choice Algorithms Religious identity Social statistics Distribution (Probability theory)
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