Educational Attainment Has a Causal Effect on Economic, But Not Social Ideology: Evidence from Discordant Twins.
In this article, we examine the nature of the relationship between educational attainment and ideology. Some scholars have argued that the effect of education on political variables like ideology is inflated due to unaccounted-for family factors, such as genetic predispositions and parental socializ...
| Published in: | Political Studies Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 256 - 276 |
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Feb2023
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