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Title: Heterogeneous Effects of Higher Education on Civic Participation: A Research Note
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1. Brand, Jennie E.
Heterogeneous Effects of Higher Education on Civic Participation: A Research Note
On-Line Working Paper Series CCPR-2009-021, California Center for Population Research at UCLA, September 2009
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: California Center for Population Research (CCPR)
Keyword(s): College Education; College Graduates; Disadvantaged, Economically; Education; Volunteer Work

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American educational leaders and philosophers have long valued schooling for its role in preparing the nation's youth to be civically engaged citizens. Numerous studies have found a positive relationship between education and subsequent civic participation. However, little is known about possible variation in effects by selection into higher education. With data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, I examine effects of college completion on civic participation by propensity score strata using an innovative hierarchical linear model. I find evidence for significant heterogeneity of effects: the effect of college completion on civic participation is greatest among college graduates from disadvantaged social backgrounds with a low propensity for college. The effect of college on participation decreases as the propensity for college increases.
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Brand, Jennie E. "Heterogeneous Effects of Higher Education on Civic Participation: A Research Note." On-Line Working Paper Series CCPR-2009-021, California Center for Population Research at UCLA, September 2009.