Search Results - subject:"Compulsory education"

Intergenerational effects of compulsory schooling reform on early childhood development in a middle-income country

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemir, … - 2024

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey, which extended compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey,...

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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2023

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Wage returns to human capital resulting from an extra year of primary school : evidence from Egypt

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; … - 2023

In this paper, we examine the wage returns to an extra year of primary school using a policy reform in Egypt, which reduced compulsory primary schooling from 6 to 5 years. Since this policy changed the duration of primary school while providing the same diploma, we can estimate the human capital...

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The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Entorf, Antonia K.; Dohmen, Thomas - 2025

education on noncognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank's 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

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The impact of school absence on lifetime earnings : research report

2025

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The effect of compulsory schooling on vaccination against COVID

Monsees, Daniel; Schmitz, Hendrik - In: Health economics 34 (2025) 4, pp. 643-654

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Scaling education to marginalized populations : long-run impacts of technology-aided schools

Fabregas, Raissa; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2025

Millions of children worldwide remain out of school due to the high costs of reaching them and a shortage of qualified teachers. Can ICT-based instruction help close this gap and deliver the long-term benefits of traditional schooling? This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term...

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Youth crime and delinquency in and out of school

Boshoff, Janine; Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo - 2025

This paper combines ten years of idiosyncratic variation in school closure dates for all secondary schools in England with administrative records of educational and criminal trajectories linked at the individual level to study the impact of the school schedule on the dynamics of youth crime....

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Cognitive endurance as human capital

Brown, Christina L.; Kaur, Supreet; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi; … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 140 (2025) 2, pp. 943-1002

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Does education improve cognitive performance four decades after school completion? : a replication study of Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Demography, 2014)

Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba; Schiele, Valentin - 2025

This paper replicates the analysis of Schneeweis et al. (2014) using their sample as well as an extended sample. Schneeweis et al. (2014) use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and exploit compulsory schooling reforms implemented in six European countries to...

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