Arbeitspapier

Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes cutoff birth dates for school enrollment that lead to variation in the length of exposure to the socialist education system within the same birth cohort. An additional year of socialist education decreases the probability of obtaining a college degree and affects longer-term male labor market outcomes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9678

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Economic Development
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
Thema
socialist education
non-meritocratic access restrictions
labor market success

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola
Masella, Paolo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola
  • Masella, Paolo
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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