Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling

By Melvin Stephens, Dou-Yan Yang. 2014

246 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Education

1. Joshua Goodman
2. Imran Rasul
3. O. Bandiera
4. J. Kirksey
5. Michael A. Gottfried

In Sociology and Political Science

1. O. Bandiera
2. Myra Mohnen
3. Joshua Goodman
4. Imran Rasul
5. M. Viarengo
6. Ian M. Schmutte
7. Stephan Klasen

Citations in the corpus

• The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework (2019, result): “The use of compulsory schooling law changes as exogenous variation in educational attainment produces results largely consistent with earlier non-experimental literature (Acemoglu and Angrist, 2001; Oreopoulos, 2006), although these results may be sensitive to empirical specification (Stephens and Y”
• Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration (2019, background): “As summarised in Stephens and Yang (2014), this literature has found rather mixed evidence.”
• Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets (2018, unknown): “This variable is one for people who either own stocks directly or who                                                                                                                           27 Stephens and Yang (2014) show that, in the US, estimates of compulsory schooling are generally not…”