This is from the guy that "proved" that more guns prevent crime. Olin
spends its money well:
"Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism"
BY: JOHN R. LOTT, JR.
University of Chicago
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Paper ID: University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law &
Economics Working Paper No. 64
Date: December 1998
Contact: JOHN R. LOTT, JR.
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ABSTRACT:
Governments use public education and public ownership of schools
and the media to control the information that their citizens
receive. More totalitarian governments as well as those with
larger wealth transfers make greater investments in publicly
controlled information. This finding is borne out from cross
sectional time-series evidence across countries, and is
confirmed when specifically examining the recent fall of
communism. My results reject the standard public good's view
linking education and democracy, and I find evidence that public
educational expenditures vary in similar ways to government
ownership of television stations.
JEL Classification: I28
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