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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
... are not without cost, the size of social and private returns remains an important question. This study used a change in compulsory schooling laws enacted in 1972 in England and Wales to study the effects of schooling on later-life cognitive performance. The findings show that remaining in school until age 16...
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View articletitled, Does <span class="search-highlight">Schooling</span> Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From <span class="search-highlight">Compulsory</span> <span class="search-highlight">Schooling</span> Laws
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2181–2200.
Published: 02 October 2017
...Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll; Zoë Kuehn Abstract Educational attainment is a key factor for understanding why some individuals migrate and others do not. Compulsory schooling laws, which determine an individual’s minimum level of education, can potentially affect migration. We test whether and how...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Compulsory</span> <span class="search-highlight">Schooling</span> Laws and Migration Across European Countries
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1219–1242.
Published: 13 June 2015
... and log-multiplicative models of male household heads ages 36 to 75 in the 1940 U.S. census data—the first U.S. census with educational attainment information—I investigate how educational assortative mating changed with one instance of educational expansion: early U.S. compulsory school attendance laws...
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View articletitled, Effects of Early U.S. <span class="search-highlight">Compulsory</span> <span class="search-highlight">Schooling</span> Laws on Educational Assortative Mating: The Importance of Context
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Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 1 Normalized total exam scores for compulsory school (panel a), probability of low exam scores (panel b), probability of dropping out of secondary school (panel c), and probability of obtaining a bachelor's degree (panel d), by family structure. Whiskers indicate 95% confidence intervals
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1195–1220.
Published: 01 June 2022
... impact of additional education on women's autonomy by leveraging the timing of compulsory schooling reforms in three Latin American countries: Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Using Demographic and Health Surveys, I implement an instrumental variable design using random exposure to compulsory schooling laws...
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View articletitled, Mass Education and Women's Autonomy: Evidence From Latin America
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 515–541.
Published: 01 April 2025
... than many estimates from studies of causal schooling impacts on cognition using compulsory schooling laws. We also cannot rule out small and null effects at this margin. However, we find evidence for positive causal effects on cognition of increasing schooling from secondary to tertiary. We replicate...
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View articletitled, Does <span class="search-highlight">Schooling</span> Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... in the educational achievements of recent birth cohorts. Harnessing a change in compulsory school laws and applying an instrumental variables approach, we found that each year of offspring schooling was associated with higher overall cognition among parents but was less predictive across different cognitive...
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View articletitled, Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 619–643.
Published: 28 February 2014
...Nicole Schneeweis; Vegard Skirbekk; Rudolf Winter-Ebmer Abstract We study the effect of secondary education on cognitive performance toward the end of working age. We exploit the exogenous variation in years of schooling arising from compulsory schooling reforms implemented in six European...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 741–761.
Published: 01 August 2008
... advances that improve health. We test this hypothesis using data on disease-specific mortality rates for 1980 and 1990, and cancer registry data for 1973–1993. We estimate education gradients in mortality using compulsory schooling as a measure of education. We then relate these gradients to two measures...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 637–659.
Published: 02 October 2012
... siblings in the parental generation. In these fixed-effects analyses, comparing parents whose children had tertiary education with parents whose children completed only compulsory schooling (the reference group) yields a hazard ratio of 0.79 (95 % CI: 0.70–0.89) when the socioeconomic position of both...
View articletitled, From Child to Parent? The Significance of Children’s Education for Their Parents’ Longevity
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in New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement
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Published: 15 September 2020
Fig. 2 The differences in school point average at the end of compulsory education based on two types of birth order, with the firstborn a as the reference in each case. Coefficients are shown for the two main samples as well as the nuclear family sample, where children with half-siblings
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 2 Proportion of women with rural background among compliers and noncompliers to compulsory schooling reforms. Whiskers represent 95% CIs.
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 3 Proportion of women with minority background among compliers and noncompliers to compulsory schooling reforms. Whiskers represent 95% CIs.
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 535–562.
Published: 01 April 2022
...., diagnosis and management of chronic illnesses and maintenance of health behaviors) are critical pathways for older parents to benefit from their adult children's education. 3 Income per capita was much lower in China than in the United States or the United Kingdom when compulsory schooling laws were...
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View articletitled, Adult Children's Education and Older Parents' Chronic Illnesses in Aging China
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 547–568.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of the same age. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Compulsory School Swedish School Marital Behavior School Cohort Raphic Event References Alton A. , & Massey A. ( 1998 ). Date of Birth and Achievement in GCSE and GCE A-Level . Educational...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 689–718.
Published: 01 August 2010
... Externalities? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws . In B.S. Bernanke , & K. Rogoff (Eds.), NBER Macro Annual 2000 (pp. 9 – 74 ). Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Angrist J. , & Evans W. ( 1996 ). Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of the 1970 State Abortion Reforms...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 863–890.
Published: 06 May 2019
..., the period between ages 15 and 17 is a critical point in the transition to adulthood, in which girls have a high probability of leaving school and beginning family formation. This is especially true in the absence of enforced compulsory schooling laws. Although Mexico has laws that mandate completion...
View articletitled, Advanced <span class="search-highlight">School</span> Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1999–2026.
Published: 01 December 2024
... educational attainment. Thus, the postponement effect might be partially mediated through educational enrollment beyond compulsory school. Given that we did not find strong evidence for SSA effects on educational attainment, the potentially stronger negative effects of young SSA on educational experience...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">School</span> Starting Age, Fertility, and Family Formation: Evidence From the <span class="search-highlight">School</span> Entry Cutoff Using Exact Date of Birth
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1225–1249.
Published: 01 July 2014
... a compulsory schooling reform that occurred in Italy in 1962. Subsequently, we study the heterogeneity of the impact of education on various points of our outcomes distribution by using an IV quantile regression technique (IVQTE). Finally, we propose a framework in which BMI formation is a function...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1347–1375.
Published: 13 August 2011
... of the more recent studies used “natural experiments”—often school reforms, school age regulations, and labor market dimensions—as instruments for schooling. Lleras-Muney ( 2005 ), for example, used changes in compulsory school attendance and child labor laws from 30 states in the United States from 1915...
View articletitled, Does More <span class="search-highlight">Schooling</span> Reduce Hospitalization and Delay Mortality? New Evidence Based on Danish Twins
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