TY  - CHAP
AB  - 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 with 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 which adds to growing evidence that compulsory schooling laws are less beneficial than earlier studies suggest.
VL  - 40A
SN  - 978-1-78973-241-2, 978-1-78973-242-9/0731-9053
DO  - 10.1108/S0731-90532019000040A013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-90532019000040A013
AU  - Figinski Theodore F.
AU  - Lloro Alicia
AU  - Li Phillip
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - New Evidence on the Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws☆
T2  - Topics in Identification, Limited Dependent Variables, Partial Observability, Experimentation, and Flexible Modeling: Part A
T3  - Advances in Econometrics
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 293
EP  - 318
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -