Does college education make people politically liberal?: Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea.
College education
Graduation quota program
Ideological orientations
Natural experiment
Political ideology
Journal
Social science research
ISSN: 1096-0317
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0330501
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2019
07 2019
Historique:
received:
28
08
2018
revised:
18
03
2019
accepted:
19
03
2019
entrez:
28
5
2019
pubmed:
28
5
2019
medline:
28
5
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Our study examines the impact of college education on individuals' ideological orientations (identifying as politically liberal or conservative) using a massive expansion of opportunities to attend college known as the graduation quota program in South Korea. A 1979 military coup in South Korea mandated that all public and private colleges expand their college admission quotas by thirty percent in 1981 and fifty percent in 1982. As an ideal natural experiment for our study, the mandatory increases in college enrollment happened quickly and exogenously in a short timeframe. We use the birth cohorts that were exposed to this abrupt policy change as an instrumental variable (IV) to identify the long-term effects of college education on political preferences. We find that the enrollment expansion caused those individuals who were induced to attend college by the graduation quota program to be more politically liberal.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31130197
pii: S0049-089X(18)30708-7
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.03.014
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
209-220Informations de copyright
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