Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
· marginalrevolution.com
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of […]
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that facu...