Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola; Masella, Paolo
• 署名单位: Goethe University Frankfurt; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Sussex
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00583
• 发表日期: 2016-07
• 页码: 428-441
• 关键词: east-germany; TRANSITION; returns; determinants; communism; DEMOCRACY; outcomes; ECONOMY; AGE

摘要

Political regimes influence the content 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 uses 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 labor market outcomes for men.