Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive welfare consequences on its pupils. This paper...

Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to indoctrination effects with counterproductive welfare consequences on its pupils. This paper...

This paper evaluates the effects of a reform that changed the school curriculum in Communist Poland by reducing the load of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination. To overcome endogeneity concerns of the reform, we exploit cut-off birth dates for school enrollment that lead to variation in the level of...