Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?
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political inequality; political participation; voting; education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2017-07-02 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EDU-2017-07-02 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2017-07-02 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-POL-2017-07-02 (Positive Political Economics)
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