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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Paolo Masella

Posted Online July 13, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00583

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volume 98 | Issue 3 | July 2016
p.428-441
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Paolo Masella
https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00583
Received: September 03, 2013
Accepted: September 09, 2015
Published Online: July 13, 2016
Abstract

Abstract

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.

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR, and IZA
Paolo Masella
University of Sussex and IZA
https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00583
Abstract

Abstract

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.

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR, and IZA
Paolo Masella
University of Sussex and IZA
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Paolo Masella
https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00583
Received: September 03, 2013
Accepted: September 09, 2015
Published Online: July 13, 2016
Abstract

Abstract

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.

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR, and IZA
Paolo Masella
University of Sussex and IZA
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