Staying in the Classroom and Out of the Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

By Sandra E. Black, P. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Education, Marriage, and Fertility: Long-Term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh (2017, background): “Black et al. (2008) use the term in the context of teen fertility.”
For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey (2018, background): “…focusing on the causal effects of com- pulsory schooling laws on returns to education in the labor market (Angrist and Krueger 1991; Oreopolous 2006), health outcomes (Lleras-Muney 2005; Clark and Royer 2013), fer- tility behavior (Black et al. 2008; McCrary and Royer 2011) and other outcomes.”
The influence of hidden researcher decisions in applied microeconomics (2020, neutral): “Instructions for the Black et al. (2008) replication direct replicators to download Census 1% files from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) for 1940–1970, and the 5% files from 1980. IPUMS provides data files in already mostly-usable format, and the different census years are already”
Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices: a non‐technical guide (2011, background): “Black, Devereux, and Salvanes ( 2008 ) exploit an increase in minimum schooling from seven to nine years in Norway in the 1960s.”
Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets (2018, positive): “Bertrand et al. (2004) show that this can lead to greatly underestimated standard errors and Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2008) demonstrate this for U.S. compulsory schooling law analysis.”
Does education increase pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from Europe (2015, background): “Other research finds that increases in compulsory education reduce teenage births (Black et al., 2008), reduce crime (Lochner and Moretti, 2004) and cause civic participation, including voting, to increase (Milligan et al.”
Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2008, neutral): “1 This extends Black, Devereux and Salvanes (2008) who studied the effect of the same reform on teenage”
Are Children Really Inferior Goods?: Evidence from Displacement-Driven Income Shocks (2010, background): “…in the introduction (Duclos, Lefebvre, and Merrigan 2001; Milligan 2005; Gans and Leigh 2007), and maternal education (McCrary and Royer 2006; Black, Devereux, and Salvanes 2008). empirical studies of the relationship between income and fertility because it is difficult to find exogenous…”
Fertility transitions along the extensive and intensive margins (2014, methodology): “Our empirical work draws on the Rosenwald Rural Schools Initiative, a matching grant program that partly funded the construction of almost 5,000 schoolhouses for rural blacks in 14 Southern states between 1913 and 1932.(10) The Rosenwald School movement originated from a 1912 donation by Julius Rose”
The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform (2012, background): “, Black et al. (2008) for the U.S. and Norway, Silles (2011) for Great Britain and Northern Ireland). However, increased education does not necessarily affect completed fertility because women can catch up an initial reduction in births at later ages (see, e.g., Monstad et al. (2008) for Norway, For”
In School and Out of Trouble? The Minimum Dropout Age and Juvenile Crime (2014, background): “Table 5 also reports results separately for the selling of drugs and the possession of drugs.”