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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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Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects : a randomized field experiment

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; … - 2015

We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post-secondary programs. A third of the students report...

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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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The evolution of social mobility : Norway over the 20th century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, associations between fathers' and sons' income percentiles, and...

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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform

Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …

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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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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement

Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017

In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...

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Lost boys : access to secondary education and crime

Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …

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