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Does university make you more liberal? Estimating the within-individual effects of higher education on political values

Florian Privé
- 01 Jun 2022 - 
- Vol. 77, pp 102471-102471
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For example, this paper found that achieving a degree reduces authoritarianism and racial prejudice and increases economic right-wing attitudes in the British British Cohort Study, showing that higher education is associated with lower levels of authoritarianism, with significant consequences for political behaviour.
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This article is published in Electoral Studies.The article was published on 2022-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Authoritarianism & Politics.

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Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?

TL;DR: Using eleven rotating panels of the Norwegian Election Studies (1977-2017) and exploiting first-derivative properties of the vote choice function, the authors identify non-linear life-cycle effects while controlling for cohort and period effects.
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Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–2020

TL;DR: This paper showed that obtaining higher education qualifications only has a small direct causal effect on British individuals' adult attitudes, and that this effect is not always liberalizing, contrary to popular assumptions about education's liberalizing role.
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Fear and deprivation in Trump’s America: A regional analysis of voting behavior in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections

TL;DR: In this article , the authors integrate these perspectives in a regional analysis of 18+ structural variables capturing economic, demographic, and health factors as well as the aggregated neuroticism scores of 3+ million individuals, finding that regions that voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 had high levels of neuroticism and economic deprivation.
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Incarceration risk, asset pricing, and black‐white wealth inequality

TL;DR: This article found that individual wealth levels vary inversely with incarceration risk, which suggests that at least part of the black-white wealth gap can be explained by racial differences in incarceration risk.
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Identity and support for policies towards Indigenous people: evidence from Australia

TL;DR: In this paper , the role of politicians' and voters' identities in influencing policy-making in societies marked by ethnic inequality is investigated, and the outcome is the initiatives and policies targeting Indigenous populations in the context of Australia.
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