variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are … correlated to changes in school quality, and school quality is an omitted variable, this identification strategy may fail. We …

variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are … correlated to changes in school quality, and school quality is an omitted variable, this identification strategy may fail. We …

This paper examines the effects of increasing the compulsory school leaving (CSL) age from 16 to 18 in Hungary using a … of elementary school in 1998. Identification is based on compliance with the age of elementary school start rule …. Compliance with the age rule creates a discontinuity in the probability of starting school under the higher CSL age regime around …

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 …

marginalized groups. Raising the compulsory schooling requirement forces students to remain in school which, on balance, is good …

reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 … in more than 2,500 school districts, the extensions generated large exogenous variation in educational attainment at … different points in primary school while the overall school system and curricula remained unchanged. The reforms thus constitute …

increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by …