Clay, Karen B.; Stephens, Melvin Stephens, Jr.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper examines the effects of introducing compulsory attendance laws on the schooling of U.S. children for three overlapping time periods: 1880-1927, 1890-1927, and 1898-1927. The previous literature finds little effect of the laws, which is somewhat surprising given that the passage of...