Does education improve citizenship? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

By Kevin Milligan, Enrico Moretti, Philip Oreopoulos. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

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Corruption and destructive entrepreneurship (2017, positive): “Finally, the positive relationship between education and citizenry (Milligan et al. 2004) and the negative relationship between education and corruption (Dimant and Tosato 2017) is well-documented.”
Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies (2011, background): “5 and political knowledge see Milligan et al. (2004)).8 One justification for why political information among citizens predicts governance outcomes is provided by the political agency literature (Barro, 1970; Ferejohn, 1986; Persson et al., 1997; Besley, 2006).”
The Lengthening of Childhood: NBER Working Paper No. 14124. (2008, neutral): “These reductions in education have been shown to decrease life expectancy (Lleras-Muney, 2005), happiness (Oreopoulos, 2007), and civic participation (Dee, 2004; Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos, 2004), as well as to increase crime rates (Lochner and Moretti, 2004), and earnings.”
Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies (2006, neutral): “…and noteworthy non-monetary benefits for the individual and for society as a whole, among others in terms of superior health and civic participation and reduced crime (cf. Milligan et al. 2004; Lochner and Moretti 2004; and the surveys by Wolfe and Haveman 2000, McMahon 2004 and Grossman 2006).”
The effect of compulsory schooling on health—evidence from biomarkers (2009, neutral): “Both reforms have already been used in previous studies to study causal effects of education on wages (Oreopoulos 2006; Devereux and Hart 2008), political participation (Milligan et al. 2004), and teenage fertility (Silles 2011).”
Technological Innovations, Downside Risk, and the Modernization of Agriculture (2016, background): “…their decisions will significantly understate 26 This approach has been used to investigate the channels through which education affects voting (Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos 2004) and the channels through which early-life rainfall shocks affect outcomes later in life (Maccini and Yang…”
Do Educated Leaders Matter (2011, background): “Milligan et al. (2004) looks at the effect of extra schooling induced by compulsory schooling laws on the likelihood of becoming politically involved in the US and UK.”
The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007, positive): “3 Recent studies indeed find evidence of externalities of education in such areas as reduced crime (Lochner and Moretti (2004)), improved health of children (Currie and Moretti (2003)), and improved civic participation (Dee (2004); Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos (2004)).”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, methodology): “Dee (2004) and Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos (2004) estimate sizeable effects of education on a broad range of political domains in the U.S.”
Education and Political Participation: Exploring the Causal Link (2011, methodology): “ Milligan et al. (2004) use an indicator variable measuring completion of high school, while Dee uses college attendance (for the proximity instrument) and the highest grade of schooling completed (for the compulsory education instrument).”