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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1990

because of the combined effects of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. In most school districts …, individuals born in the beginning of the year start school at a slightly older age, and therefore are eligible to drop out of … school after completing fewer years of schooling than individuals born near the end of the year. Our estimates suggest that …

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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...

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On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations : A Comment on Angrist & Krueger'S "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho

Bound, John; Jaeger, David A. - 2021

In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …

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Split Sample Instrumental Variables

Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates tend to be biased in the same direction as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) in finite samples if the instruments are weak. To address this problem we propose a new IV estimator which we call Split Sample Instrumental Variables (SSIV). SSIV works as follows: we...

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