Chaudhary, Latika, and Rubin, Jared—Reading, writing, and religion: Institutions and human capital formation In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, altho...

In various articles spanning the past thirty years, Jesse Choper has argued for a rather indulgent approach to laws adopted to favor one or more religions.' According to Choper, intentional government preferences for religion should survive Establishment Clause review as long as they are not likely to "impair religious freedom,"2 by which he means not likely to make people either (1) act contra...

Düring the last 200 years, the social, scientific, and religious framewock in which homeopathy has been taught and practiced has tremendously changed, Accordingly ? numerous efforts have been roade to estabfish and advocaie modern opportune forms of homeopathy. In order not to be misled by the prevailing pfuralism of contemporary schools and trends, as a Standard of reference for assessiog new ...

This study assesses how variations in heteronormative culture in high schools affect the well-being of same-sex-attracted youth. The authors focus on the stigmatization of same-sex attraction (rather than identity or behavior) to better understand how heteronormativity may marginalize a wide range of youth. Specifically, the authors use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent He...