Beschreibung:
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 exposure to the reform. We find that the reform improved the probability of children completion of secondary and tertiary education, and it increased the labour force participation nearly 50 years later. Our results are suggestive evidence of the long-lasting negative effects of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination on human capital accumulation and labour force participation