Chou, Shin-Yi; Liu, Jin-Tan; Grossman, Michael; Joyce, Ted - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 33-61
In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years and opened over 150 new junior high schools at a differential rate among regions. Within each region, we exploit variations across cohorts in new junior high school openings to construct an instrument for...