Education Does not Cause Political Participation: Evidence From the 1970 British Cohort Study
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According to the conventional wisdom in political behavior research, education has a direct causal effect on political participation. However, a number of recent studies have questioned this established view by arguing that education is not a direct cause but only a proxy for other factors that are not directly related to the educational experience, such as pre-adult factors. This paper engages in a current controversy regarding the application of matching techniques to assess whether there is a direct causal effect of education on political participation. It uses data from a British cohort study that follows everyone born during one week in the UK in 1970. The data includes a rich set of variables measuring factors in childhood and adolescence such as cognitive ability, activities and family socio-economic status. Results show that after matching there is no significant effect of education on political participation. ∗PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 711, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden, e-mail: [email protected], URL: http://www.pol.gu.se/staff/mikaelpersson
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