Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola and Paolo Masella

No 11093, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: 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 cut-off 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.

Keywords: Labor-market success; Non-meritocratic access restrictions; Socialist education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 J24 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02
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