Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232696 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13944
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive welfare consequences on its pupils. This paper studies the effects of communist indoctrination on human capital accumulation and labour market outcomes in Poland. We document that the reduction of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination in school curriculum after 1954 exerted long-lasting beneficial effects. Unlike in East Germany, the school reform after the fall of communism in Poland had negligible effects on human capital and labour market outcomes. Our results are in contrast, explained by the ideological content of the school curriculum in the Polish education system.
Subjects: 
human capital attainment
later life outcomes
school curriculum
education reforms
communist education
education systems
labour market participation
JEL: 
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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