Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - 2014
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …