The compelling effects of compulsory schooling: evidence from Canada

By Philip Oreopoulos. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement (2008, unknown): “12 See, for example, Stambler (1968) and numerous contemporaneous studies, often by advocates, including Clapp and Strong (1928) on Massachusetts and Gibbons (1927) on Indiana.”
• The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws. NBER Working Paper No. 16973. (2011, methodology): “…dropout ages over the relevant time span, although a few (British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and most notably Ontario) did not.18 Prior work (e.g., Oreopoulos, 2006b) has shown that Canadian compulsory laws are suitable instruments for education and that in practice these laws generated…”
• Does education increase pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from Europe (2015, methodology): “Other studies have shown that the compulsory education reforms enacted in Great Britain were particularly successful in increasing average educational attainment (Clark and Royer, 2013; Oreopoulos, 2006a).”