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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

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  • Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola

    (Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • Masella, Paolo

    (University of Bologna)

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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.

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  • Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola & Masella, Paolo, 2016. "Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education," IZA Discussion Papers 9678, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • P36 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty

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