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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household Survey (GHS). Reanalysing this dataset, we find much smaller returns of...
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In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...
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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268617
study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … year earlier grades are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety by the end of compulsory school, controlling …
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Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …
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