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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

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dc.creator Siedler, Thomas
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:49Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:49Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18397
dc.identifier ppn:525751610
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18397
dc.description This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of schooling was increased from eight to nine years in the Federal Republic of Germany, gradually over time and across federal states. These law changes allow one to investigate the causal impact of years of schooling on citizenship. Years of schooling are found to be positively correlated with a broad range of political outcome measures. However, when exogenous increase in schooling through law changes is used, there is no evidence of a causal effect running from schooling to citizenship in Germany.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 665
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I2
dc.subject H23
dc.subject H4
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Voting
dc.subject civic engagement
dc.subject education
dc.subject externalities
dc.subject instrumental variables estimation
dc.subject Schulpolitik
dc.subject Bildungsverhalten
dc.subject Öffentliches Interesse
dc.subject Politische Willensbildung
dc.subject Partizipation
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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