@article{ref1,
title="The effect of college education on intolerance: evidence from Google search data",
journal="Applied economics letters",
year="2019",
author="Chan, Jeff",
volume="26",
number="2",
pages="83-86",
abstract="This article explores the causal relationship between college education within a region and that region's interest in hate-related topics. I utilize Google Trends search data for intolerance-related terms to measure regional interest in intolerance, and an instrumental variable based on the historical assignment of land grant colleges to obtain exogenous variation in cross-regional college-educated population shares. I find that there is a negative correlation between a region's college-educated population share and that region's search activity for intolerance-related terms. This correlation does not translate to a causal relationship, however, as the instrumental variables estimates are found to be small and statistically insignificant. This finding suggests that improving access to college-level education may not be an effective policy tool to combat hateful attitudes and behaviour.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1350-4851",
doi="10.1080/13504851.2018.1438582",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1438582"
}