青年选民对公民教育的顽固冷漠:来自州强制公民考试的准实验证据

IF 2.4 1区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.3102/01623737231195887

Jilli Jung, Maithreyi Gopalan

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摘要

青年选民的投票率仍然很低，对公民教育反应迟钝。对一些州在高中毕业时采用公民考试对青年选民投票率的影响的严格评估仍然有限。我们通过利用各州采用公民教育倡议(CEI)的时空差异，估计了最近一项州强制公民考试政策——公民教育倡议(CEI)——对青年选民投票率的影响。利用1996年至2020年当期人口调查的全国代表性数据和差异中的差异分析，我们发现CEI对青年选民投票率没有显著影响。我们的无效结果，在很大程度上对各种替代规范和稳健性检查不敏感，提供了关于公民考试政策在青年选民参与方面缺乏有效性的证据。

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The Stubborn Unresponsiveness of Youth Voter Turnout to Civic Education: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From State-Mandated Civics Tests

Youth voter turnout remains stubbornly low and unresponsive to civic education. Rigorous evaluations of the effects of adopting civics tests for high school graduation by some states on youth voter turnout remain limited. We estimate the impact of a recent, state-mandated civics test policy—the Civics Education Initiative (CEI)—on youth voter turnout by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in the adoption of CEI across states. Using nationally representative data from the 1996 to 2020 Current Population Survey and a difference-in-differences analysis, we find that CEI does not significantly affect youth voter turnout. Our null results, largely insensitive to a variety of alternative specifications and robustness checks, provide evidence regarding the lack of efficacy of civics test policies when it comes to youth voter participation.

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Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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6.60

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期刊介绍： Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA) publishes manuscripts of theoretical or practical interest to those engaged in educational evaluation or policy analysis, including economic, demographic, financial, and political analyses of education policies, and significant meta-analyses or syntheses that address issues of current concern. The journal seeks high-quality research on how reforms and interventions affect educational outcomes; research on how multiple educational policy and reform initiatives support or conflict with each other; and research that informs pending changes in educational policy at the federal, state, and local levels, demonstrating an effect on early childhood through early adulthood.