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Title: Education and Attitudes toward Redistribution in the United States

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

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ISSN: 0007-1234

DOI: 10.1017/S0007123419000504

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Abstract: Although scholars have studied education's effects on many different outcomes, little attention has been paid to its effects on adults’ economic views. This article examines those effects. It presents results based on longitudinal data which suggest that secondary education has a little-appreciated consequence: it makes Americans more opposed to redistribution. Placebo tests and other analyses confirm this finding. Further investigation suggests that these conservative effects of education operate partly by changing the way that self-interest shapes people's ideas about redistribution.

Url: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/education-and-attitudes-toward-redistribution-in-the-united-states/E116DB198C1FB042BFC9280899849E48

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Authors: Bullock, John G.

Periodical (Full): British Journal of Political Science

Issue: 3

Volume: 51

Pages: 1230-1250

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Poverty and Welfare

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