I investigate the causal effect of education on time preferences. To deal with the endogeneity of education, I exploit exogenous variation in education imposed by the 1997 Turkish school reform that raised compulsory education from five to eight years. I find that education causes individuals to...

Viele Bundesländer machen für Schulformen mit mehr als einem Bildungsgang nur noch Rahmenvorgaben zur Leistungsdifferenzierung und delegieren deren konkrete Ausgestaltung an die Einzelschule. Damit verliert die viel verwendete Kategorie "Schulform" zusehends an deskriptivem und analytischem...

In dem Beitrag stellen wir ein Projekt vor, in dem wir Schulpolitiken der 16 Bundesländer seit 1949 aufgearbeitet haben. Die so erarbeitete schulrechtliche Datenbank ist über einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren entstanden und wird fortlaufend aktualisiert. Mit ihr können schulrechtliche...

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use...

Secondary schooling experienced incredible growth in the first 40 years of the 20th Century. Was legislation on compulsory attendance and child labor responsible for this growth? Using individual data from the 1960 census, I estimate the effect of several laws on educational attainment for...

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...

Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools while remaining under public control. Despite their conceptual appeal, evaluating their performance...

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age in 1947 and 1973, respectively. Our study complements...

Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...

Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...

We examine if compulsory schooling laws (CSL) necessarily lower crimes. We focus on violent youth crime (homicides by assault and guns) among 15-19 years age group in all Brazilian municipalities over 2000-13, taking advantage of the 2009 Brazilian Constitutional Amendment that required...

This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys (SHARE, HRS and ELSA) that include nationally representative samples of people aged 50 and over from fourteen OECD countries. We use variation in the timing of educational reforms...

We examine if compulsory schooling laws (CSL) necessarily lower crimes. We focus on violent youth crime (homicides by assault and guns) among 15-19 years age group in all Brazilian municipalities over 2000-13, taking advantage of the 2009 Brazilian Constitutional Amendment that required...

Die Genehmigung einer privaten Ersatzschule darf in Deutschland nur gewährt werden, wenn »eine Sonderung der Schüler nach den Besitzverhältnissen der Eltern nicht gefördert wird« (Art 7 Abs. 4 S. 3 GG). Dieses Sonderungsverbot wird in den Bundesländern unterschiedlich umgesetzt. Bei...

Die Genehmigung einer privaten Ersatzschule darf in Deutschland nur gewährt werden, wenn "eine Sonderung der Schüler nach den Besitzverhältnissen der Eltern nicht gefördert wird" (Art 7 Abs. 4 S. 3 GG). Dieses Sonderungsverbot wird in den Bundesländern unterschiedlich umgesetzt. Bei seiner...

Compulsory schooling laws are a common policy tool to achieve greater participation in education, particularly from marginalized groups. Raising the compulsory schooling requirement forces students to remain in school which, on balance, is good for them in terms of labor market outcomes such as...

We take a closer look at what we can learn about charter schools by pooling data from lottery-based impact estimates of the effect of charter school attendance at 113 schools. On average, each year enrolled at one of these schools increases math scores by 0.08 standard deviations and...

We take a closer look at what we can learn about charter schools by pooling data from lottery-based impact estimates of the effect of charter school attendance at 113 schools. On average, each year enrolled at one of these schools increases math scores by 0.08 standard deviations and...

We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces...

While less-educated women are more likely to give birth as teenagers, there is scant evidence the relationship is causal. We investigate this possibility using variation in compulsory schooling laws (CSLs) to identify the impact of formal education on teen fertility for a large sample of women...

While less-educated women are more likely to give birth as teenagers, there is scant evidence the relationship is causal. We investigate this possibility using variation in compulsory schooling laws (CSLs) to identify the impact of formal education on teen fertility for a large sample of women...

This paper provides an explanation for the existence of child labor which relies on the imperfect enforcement of compulsory schooling laws. In the presence of complementarities in the production of human capital that justify legislative intervention, mandatory measures ensure that coordination...

Die Chance, das Gymnasium zu besuchen, hängt in Deutschland immer noch in hohem Maße von der sozialen Schicht ab, aus der ein Kind kommt: Selbst bei gleichen schulischen Kompetenzen ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer gymnasialen Laufbahn bei Schülerinnen und Schülern aus besser situierten...

Minimum dropout age (MDA) laws have been touted as effective policies to bring dropouts off streets and into classrooms. One question to better understand the costs and benefits of these laws is: to what extent do MDA laws displace crime from streets to schools? This research expands the...

Die Chance, das Gymnasium zu besuchen, hängt in Deutschland immer noch in hohem Maße von der sozialen Schicht ab, aus der ein Kind kommt: Selbst bei gleichen schulischen Kompetenzen ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer gymnasialen Laufbahn bei Schülerinnen und Schülern aus besser situierten...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Erster Beratungsgegenstand: Bewahrung und Veränderung demokratischer und rechtsstaatlicher Verfassungsstruktur in den internationalen Gemeinschaften -- Zweiter Beratungsgegenstand: Verwaltung und Schule -- Verzeichnis der Redner -- Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der...

This paper estimates the causal effect of an additional year of parents' schooling on theirchildren's education, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms that were implemented inall West German states between 1946 and 1969. Although previous research indicatesthat these reforms had no effects on...

According to school entry regulations in most countries, the composition of school entrance cohorts is determined by a fixed cutoff date. This procedure creates inter-cohort differences in age and development which can severely influence educational trajectories. Developmental examinations at...

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However, it is essential to ensure that the direction of...

This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...