“Long-lasting effects of indoctrination in school: Evidence from the People’s Republic of Poland” – the article co-authored by Anna Nicińska, Ph.D.

The article “Long-lasting effects of indoctrination in school: Evidence from the People’s Republic of Poland” by Joan Costa-Font (London School of Economics and Political Science), Jorge García-Hombrados (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Anna Nicińska, Ph.D. from the Department of Technological Transformation of our Faculty was published in European Economic Review.

Abstract:

This paper studies the effect of communist indoctrination in school on labour force participation and human capital investments. Specifically, we evaluate the impact of a reform in Poland that revoked political indoctrination in school in the mid-1950s, while leaving the rest of the curriculum unchanged. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit cut-off birth dates for school enrolment that exhibit variation in the level of exposure to the reform. We find that a reduction in school indoctrination increased the probability of finishing secondary and tertiary education, and expanded labour force participation about 50 years down the line.

The article is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292123002696?via%3Dihub