The impact of education on political ideology: Evidence from European compulsory education reforms

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• 作者：Andrew G. Meyer ^{andrew.g.meyer@marquette.edu}
• 关键词：Education ; Political ideology ; Europe ; Compulsory education reforms
• 刊名：Economics of Education Review
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：56
• 期：Complete
• 页码：9-23
• 全文大小：1239 K
• 卷排序：56

文摘

I estimate the causal effect of educational attainment on political ideology. Changes in compulsory education laws provide the needed exogenous variation. An extra year of education moves individuals to the right on average. I also find some evidence of no effect for a subgroup of countries. These European results are most consistent with the self-interest thesis.