Cultural Transmission of Civic Attitudes

Daniel Miles-Touya () and Maximo Rossi
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Daniel Miles-Touya: RGEA, Universidad de Vigo

No 715, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: In this empirical paper we attempt to measure the separate influence on civic engagement of educational attainment and cultural transmission of civic attitudes. Unlike most of the previous empirical works on this issue, we are able to observe both individuals' educational attainment and the transmission of civic attitudes. We observe that civic returns to education are overstated when the transmission of civic attitudes is ignored. Moreover, the transmission of civic attitudes significantly enhances civic involvement and reinforces civic returns to education (the interactions are significant).

Keywords: returns to education; cultural transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H80 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2015-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul, nep-ltv and nep-ure
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