Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/130359
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9678
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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 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 male labor market outcomes.
Subjects: 
socialist education
non-meritocratic access restrictions
labor market success
JEL: 
I25
J24
P36
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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