Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/285098 
Title (translated): 
¿Te hace progre la universidad?
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Estudios de Economía [ISSN:] 0718-5286 [Volume:] 49 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 175-197
Publisher: 
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía, Santiago de Chile
Abstract: 
I examine the association between college education and left-leaning views in Bolivia using novel survey data. My findings suggest that college education is associated with left-leaning social preferences (college-educated individuals favor social equality and a tax system in which not everybody must pay taxes) but right-leaning individual preferences (they favor individual liberty and respect for private property). My results fit the connotation given to terms like progre or socialista caviar commonly used in Latin America to refer to educated individuals who consider themselves progressive, or even socialist, but admit and enjoy the benefits of individual liberty and markets.
Subjects: 
Bolivia
education
college
public opinion
ideology
JEL: 
I23
A13
P16
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by-nc-sa Logo
Document Type: 
Article

Files in This Item:
File
Size
228.43 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.