Paul Perl
Georgetown University
10 Papers
56 Citations
Paul Perl is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Attendance & Population. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
A Friend in Creed: Does the Religious Composition of Geographic Areas Affect the Religious Composition of a Person's Close Friends?
Daniel V. A. Olson,Paul Perl +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that despite the tendency toward religious homogeneity, the religious composition of the surrounding population has an effect on the proportion of a respondent's same-religion friends and on the proportions of friends belonging to specific other religious groups.
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What Proportion of Adult Hispanics Are Catholic? A Review of Survey Data and Methodology
TL;DR: The authors compare 12 national surveys conducted since 1990 and conclude that 70 percent or slightly more is a reasonable estimate of the proportion of adult Hispanics who are Catholic, and 20 percent or so a reasonable proportion who are Protestant or other Christian, and explore effects of sampling bias, noncoverage bias, and weighting on religious identification.
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Free and Cheap Riding in Strict, Conservative Churches
Daniel V. A. Olson,Paul Perl +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a new indirect measure of free (and cheap) riding, the level of positive skewness of a congregation's money contributions, that is, the extent to which a few members give much more than the mean amount while the majority gives much less.
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Catholic Schooling and Disaffiliation from Catholicism
Paul Perl,Mark Gray +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of attending Catholic elementary school and high school on the likelihood one remains a Catholic and found that attending Catholic high school for at least three years significantly reduces the likelihood that one disaffiliates from Catholicism, reducing both the likelihood of converting to another faith and the likelihood choosing to have no religion at all.
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Gender and Mainline Protestant Pastors’ Allocation of Time to Work Tasks
TL;DR: This paper found that women devote less time than men to staff administration and supervision, a difference that is empirically attributable to their underrepresentation as senior pastors, while men are more focused on job status and interested in administration.
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