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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 compulsory education law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas-one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling-using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform increased...

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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 Compulsory Education Law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

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School starting age and the gender pay gap over the life cycle

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Westphal, Matthias - 2026

This paper replicates and extends the evidence on the lifetime effects of school starting age on earnings by Fredriksson and Öckert (2014) for Sweden. Using German data for individuals born between 1945 and 1965, we examine a more rigid system of ability tracking in secondary education, a...

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School starting age and the gender pay gap over the life cycle

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Westphal, Matthias - 2025

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School starting age and the gender pay gap over the life cycle

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Westphal, Matthias - 2024

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Parental migration and unconditional cash transfers for education : evidence from the smart Indonesia program

Destefanis, Alessia; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2026

This paper examines how parental migration interacts with unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) for education by analyzing Indonesia's Smart Indonesia Program (PIP), which provides educational grants to children from poor households. Using a difference-in-differences approach and nationally...

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school

Britton, Jack; Ridpath, Nick; Villa, Carmen; Waltmann, Ben - 2026

We evaluate the Education Maintenance Allowance, a large conditional cash transfer scheme that paid low-income teenagers in England to remain in education beyond age 16. Using the staggered national roll-out of the programme and linked administrative data tracking education, earnings, welfare...

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The effect of water hauling time on children's school enrollment in Haiti

Ribeiro, Beatriz Couto; Castillo Castillo, Adriana; … - 2026

Limited access to safe and proximate water remains a defining constraint in Haiti, where access to piped water remains limited and school enrollment is not universal. Using a pseudo-panel constructed from four rounds of the Haiti Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), we estimate the causal...

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Compulsory education, life trajectories, and intergenerational mobility : evidence from Mexico's 1993 schooling reform

Fuente Stevens, Diego de la - 2026

Mexico's 1993 reform extended compulsory schooling from six to nine years, creating a birth-cohort discontinuity in educational exposure. Using a regression discontinuity and instrumental variable design in the 2020 Mexican Census, this paper traces the reform's effects from educational...

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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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Youth crime and delinquency in and out of school

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

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Youth crime and delinquency in and out of school

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

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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

Personality traits, preferences, and attitudes significantly influence labor market outcomes, and these non-cognitive skills are shaped by the social environment. While curriculum interventions can impact these skills, the effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills is less well...

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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

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The impact of school absence on lifetime earnings : research report

2025

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Prospering through prospera: a dynamic model of CCT impacts on educational attainment and achievement in Mexico

Behrman, Jere R.; Parker, Susan; Todd, Petra; Zhang, Weilong - 2025

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model, which integrates value‐added and school‐choice models, to evaluate grade‐by‐grade and cumulative impacts of the Mexican Prospera conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on educational achievement. The empirical application advances the...

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