Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2022
|Germany's division and compulsory schooling reforms. We find that former East Germans have substantially higher levels of self …-control than West Germans and provide evidence for suppression as a possible underlying mechanism. An increase in compulsory … schooling had no causal effect on self-control. Moreover, we find that self-control increases linearly with age. In contrast to …