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US college attendance appears to politicize students, per analysis of surveys since 1974, with female students in particular becoming more liberal through attending college

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Gender differential effect of college on political orientation over the last 40 years in the U.S.—A propensity score weighting approach

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US college attendance appears to politicize students, per analysis of surveys since 1974, with female students in particular becoming more liberal through attending college

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0279273

Article Title: Gender differential effect of college on political orientation over the last 40 years in the U.S.—A propensity score weighting approach

Author Countries: France, USA

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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