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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w29308 |
来源ID | Working Paper 29308 |
Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston\u2019s Charter Schools | |
Sarah Cohodes; James J. Feigenbaum | |
发表日期 | 2021-09-27 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In the United States, people with more education vote more. But, we know little about why education increases political participation or whether higher-quality education increases civic participation. We study applicants to Boston charter schools, using school lotteries to estimate charter attendance impacts for academic and voting outcomes. First, we confirm large academic gains for students in the sample of charter schools and cohorts investigated here. Second, we find that charter attendance boosts voter participation. Voting in the first presidential election after a student turns 18 increased substantially, by six percentage points from a base of 35 percent. The voting effect is driven entirely by girls and there is no increase in voter registration. Rich data and the differential effects by gender enable exploration of multiple potential channels for the voting impact. We find evidence consistent with two mechanisms: charter schools increase voting by increasing students’ noncognitive skills and by politicizing families who participate in charter school education. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29308 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586981 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sarah Cohodes,James J. Feigenbaum. Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston\u2019s Charter Schools. 2021. |
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