期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's
political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and
political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS).
Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of schooling was increased
from eight to nine years in the Federal Republic of Germany, gradually over time
and across federal states. These law changes allow one to investigate the causal
impact of years of schooling on citizenship. Years of schooling are found to be
positively correlated with a broad range of political outcome measures. However,
when exogenous increase in schooling through law changes is used, there is no
evidence of a causal effect running from schooling to citizenship in
Germany.
