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Title: New Evidence on the Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2019

ISBN: 978-1-78973-242-9

ISSN: 0731-9053

DOI: /doi:10.1108/S0731-90532019000040A013

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Abstract: This study provides new evidence on the effect of compulsory schooling laws on educational attainment and earnings. First, we re-examine the effect of compulsory schooling laws for cohorts born between 1900 and 1964 ("older cohorts") using newly available data that match administrative earnings records ii-ith the survey data. Second, we provide among the first evidence on cohorts born between 1977 and 1996 ("younger cohorts"). Our findings suggest that compulsory schooling laws increased the educational attainment of older cohorts, but had no economically significant effect on the educational attainment of younger cohorts. We are unable to find consistent evidence that compulsory schooling laws increased the earnings of older cohorts - a finding

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Authors: Figinski, Theodore, F; Lloro, Alicia; Li, Phillip

Editors: Jeliazkov, Ivan; Tobias, Justin

Pages: 293-318

Volume Title: Topics in Identification, Limited Dependent Variables Partial Observability Experimentation, and Flexible Modeling

Publisher: Emerald Limited Publishing

Publisher Location: England

Volume: 40A

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

Countries: United Kingdom