Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSE)
Category: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Preparing young people for citizenship is a foundational purpose of public education, yet little is known about whether or how K-12 schools impact civic engagement. Using education, birth, and voting records for nine cohorts of students in Indiana, I estimate and assess the validity of high school effects on voting. School effects on voting are significant and practically meaningful: a one standard deviation increase in school civic effects increases the probability of voting by 2.1 percentage points (5.3%) and also predicts increases in voter registration and times voting. School civic effects are positively associated with peer parental civic norms.
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Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/04mk-qe46
