Do legal school leaving rules still affect schooling and earnings?

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• 作者：Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel ^{mevlude@dal.ca}
• 关键词：Educational achievement ; School leaving rules ; Wages
• 刊名：Social Science Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：61
• 期：Complete
• 页码：195-205
• 全文大小：247 K
• 卷排序：61

文摘

This paper quantifies whether compulsory schooling laws still influence educational achievement and earnings today. I find that compulsory schooling laws were effective for the white men born in the 1930s and 1940s in the U.S. However, they no longer produce the same seasonality effects on the educational attainment of the younger white men. The school leaving rules are currently effective in keeping the younger African American cohorts at school.