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Cultural Transmission of Civic Attitudes

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  • Daniel Miles-Touya

    (RGEA, Universidad de Vigo)

  • Máximo Rossi

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

Abstract

In this empirical paper we attempt to measure the separate influence on civic engagement of educational attainment and cultural transmission of civic attitudes. Unlike most of the previous empirical works on this issue, we are able to observe both individuals' educational attainment and the transmission of civic attitudes. We observe that civic returns to education are overstated when the transmission of civic attitudes is ignored. Moreover, the transmission of civic attitudes significantly enhances civic involvement and reinforces civic returns to education (the interactions are significant).

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  • Daniel Miles-Touya & Máximo Rossi, 2015. "Cultural Transmission of Civic Attitudes," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 0715, Department of Economics - dECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ude:wpaper:0715
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    Keywords

    returns to education; cultural transmission;

    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • H80 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - General

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