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Does secular education impact religiosity, electoral participation and the propensity to vote for Islamic parties? : evidence from an education reform in a Muslim country

Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - 2014

secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …

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Economic well-being and anti-semitic, xenophobic, and racist attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014

. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states …

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Compulsory schooling laws and formation of beliefs : education, religion and superstition

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014

s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the … impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...

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Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy? : school outcomes of Dragon children of China

Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han - 2020

three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …

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The effect of grade retention on adult crime: evidence from a test-based promotion policy

Eren, Ozkan; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Mocan, Naci - 2020

This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth grade in Louisiana using administrative data on all public K-12 students combined with...

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017

exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602