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Understanding Compulsory Schooling Legislation : A Formal Model and Implications for Empirical Analysis

Gradstein, Mark - 2009

We construct a simple model of compulsory schooling in which legislation and compliance are endogenously determined by individuals disciplined by social norms, optimizing their voting decisions and the school attendance of their children. The model provides a formal framework for interpreting...

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Understanding compulsory schooling legislation : a formal model and implications for empirical analysis

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Justman, Moshe - 2009

the estimates it produces may be biased. -- Education ; compulsory schooling ; compliance norms …

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Understanding Compulsory Schooling Legislation: A Formal Model and Implications for Empirical Analysis

Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Women's education, marriage, and fertility outcomes : evidence from Thailand's compulsory schooling law

Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023

Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …

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Electives Shopping, Grading Competition, and Grading Norms

Gregor, Martin - 2018

This paper analyzes grading competition between instructors of elective courses when students shop for high course scores, the instructors maximize class size, and the school imposes a ceiling on mean course scores to limit grade inflation. Under this grading norm, we demonstrate that curriculum...

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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

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School entry, compulsory schooling, and human capital accumulation : evidence from Michigan

Hemelt, Steven W.; Rosen, Rachel B. - 2016

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance in early grades. In this paper, we explore the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the...

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Keeping kids in school and out of work : compulsory schooling and child labor in Turkey

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2020

We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling infrastructure. We employ four rounds of Child Labor Surveys with a very rich set of outcomes. The reform...

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School entrance recommendation: A question of age or development?

Horstschräer, Julia; Muehler, Grit - 2010

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...

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