Should-Read: Willa Friedman et al. (2011): Education as Liberation?

Should-Read: Willa Friedman et al. (2011): Education as Liberation?: “We assess the political and social impacts of a randomized girls’ merit scholarship incentive program in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary schooling… http://www.nber.org/papers/w16939

…Young women in program schools were less likely to accept domestic violence…. The program increased objective political knowledge, and reduced acceptance of political authority. However, this rejection of the status quo did not translate into greater perceived political efficacy, community participation, or voting intentions. Instead, the perceived legitimacy of political violence increased. Reverse causality may help account for the view that education instills greater acceptance of authority.