educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing. We use variation induced … by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different … institutional environments. We find evidence that increased compulsory schooling does in fact reduce the incidence of teenage …

educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing. We use variation induced … by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different … institutional environments. We find evidence that increased compulsory schooling does in fact reduce the incidence of teenage …

pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects …. There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has …

pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects …. There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has … -- Education ; earnings ; IQ ; teenage childbearing …

, teenage childbearing, post-compulsory schooling educational track, adult labor market status, and earnings. We find that …