Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade.

This article examines various 2005 survey data in an effort to show the impact of education on attitudes toward trade is almost identical among respondents in the active labor force and those who are not. Support for trade restrictions is highest among respondents with the lowest levels of education. This has been interpreted as strong support for the Stolper-Samuelson theorem. The results suggest that the effects of education on individual trade preferences are not primarily a product of distributional concerns linked to job skills.