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Political Analysis Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2007
Political Analysis 2007 15(4):446-464; doi:10.1093/pan/mpm012
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The Effect of Education on Voter Turnout

Steven Tenn

Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580

e-mail: stenn{at}ftc.gov

Numerous studies demonstrate that the highly educated are more likely to vote. The literature has not determined, however, why this is the case. The panel structure of the Current Population Survey allows us to exploit exogenous life cycle differences across otherwise similar cohorts, so that the marginal effect of education can be isolated from unobserved correlated factors. We find that an additional year of schooling has very little impact on voter turnout.

Author's note: Helpful comments from two anonymous referees, Sharmi Dasgupta, George Deltas, Steve Levitt, Rob McMillan, Casey Mulligan, Norman Nie, Sam Peltzman, Shawn Ulrick, Brett Wendling, John Whitley, and John Yun are greatly appreciated. Data were provided by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Trade Commission or any individual Commissioner.


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