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Does Postsecondary Education Result in Civic Benefits?

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  • William R. Doyle
  • Benjamin T. Skinner

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Public support for higher education depends in part on the idea that additional postsecondary education results in civic benefits including voting, volunteering, and donating to non-profit causes. We expanded on the literature on civic benefits of higher education by utilizing a rich set of location-based instruments to identify the relationship between additional postsecondary education and civic behaviors. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we estimated the impact of postsecondary education on civic behaviors for a group of young people aged 29 to 33 years by 2013. These new estimates indicated that an additional year of higher education increased the probability of voting by 7.7% in the 2010 election. We also found statistically significant though substantively small impacts of postsecondary education on volunteerism and donations to nonprofits, with effect sizes of .1 for voluntarism and .13 for donations.

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  • William R. Doyle & Benjamin T. Skinner, 2017. "Does Postsecondary Education Result in Civic Benefits?," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 88(6), pages 863-893, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:88:y:2017:i:6:p:863-893
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2017.1291258
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    1. Carl C. Berning & Conrad Ziller, 2020. "Green Versus Radical Right as the New Political Divide? The European Parliament Election 2019 in Germany," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(S1), pages 43-56, September.
    2. Benjamin Skinner & Taylor Burtch & Hazel Levy, 2024. "Variation in Broadband Access Among Undergraduate Populations Across the United States," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 65(5), pages 827-870, August.
    3. Antoni Barnard & Aleksandra Furtak, 2020. "Psychological Resilience of Volunteers in a South African Health Care Context: A Salutogenic Approach and Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-15, April.
    4. Benjamin T. Skinner, 2019. "Choosing College in the 2000s: An Updated Analysis Using the Conditional Logistic Choice Model," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 60(2), pages 153-183, March.
    5. Bell, D’Wayne & Holbein, John B. & Imlay, Samuel J. & Smith, Jonathan, 2024. "Which Colleges Increase Voting Rates?," IZA Discussion Papers 16813, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Mikołaj Czajkowski & Tomasz Gajderowicz & Marek Giergiczny & Gabriela Grotkowska & Urszula Sztandar-Sztanderska, 2020. "Choosing the Future: Economic Preferences for Higher Education Using Discrete Choice Experiment Method," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 61(4), pages 510-539, June.
    7. Radomir Ray Mitic, 2020. "Global Learning for Local Serving: Establishing the Links Between Study Abroad and Post-college Volunteering," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 61(5), pages 603-627, August.
    8. Caitlin E. Ahearn & Jennie E. Brand & Xiang Zhou, 2023. "How, and For Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 64(4), pages 574-597, June.

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