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The decline in black teenage labor force participation in the South, 1900 - 1970 : the role of schooling

Margo, Robert A.; Finegan, Thomas Aldrich - 1991

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Compulsory schooling legislation and school attendance in turn-of-the century America : a natural experiment approach

Margo, Robert A. - In: Economics letters 53 (1996) 1, pp. 103-110

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Compulsory schooling legislation and school attendance in turn-of-the-century America : a "natural experiment" approach

Margo, Robert A.; Finegan, Thomas Aldrich - 1996

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The decline in black teenage labor-force participation in the South, 1900 - 1970 : the role of schooling

Margo, Robert A. - In: The American economic review 83 (1993) 1, pp. 234-247

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The Decline in Black Teenage Labor Force Participation in the South, 1900-1970 : The Role of Schooling

Margo, Robert A. - 2010

Between 1950 and 1970 the labor force participation rate of southern black males aged 16-19 declined by 27 percentage points. This decline has been attributed to two demand-side shocks: the mechanization of cotton agriculture in the 1950s and extensions in the coverage of the federal minimum...

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Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-the-Century America : A "Natural Experiment" Approach

Margo, Robert A. - 1996

Recent research by Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger has used information on exact dates of birth in the 1960 to 1980 federal censuses to study the impact of compulsory schooling laws on school attendance. This paper modifies their methodology to analyze similar data in the 1900 federal census to...

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