Essays on politics and education

This thesis comprises two projects on politics and education. The first one studies the consequences of unmet expectations after higher education in political behavior. It uses a larges ample panel that I designed and implemented in Chile, which follows students in their incorporation to the labor market (14,233 higher education students around graduation time in 2016, and 3,948 of them one year later). I use two different empirical methods. First, a survey experiment (Paper 1): after revealing their labor expectations for one year later, and before answering questions on political behavior, respondents randomly received information on average labor outcomes of past graduates from their same degree and institution. Second, panel methods (Paper 2): I calculate the gap between expected and actual outcomes of higher education at the individual level and estimate the relation between gaps and changes in political behavior.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Cox Alcaíno, María Loreto.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• F. Daniel Hidalgo.

• Political Science.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124277

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/124277