Replication data for: Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Melvin, Jr. Stephens; Dou-Yan Yang
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Project Citation:
Stephens, Melvin, Jr., and Yang, Dou-Yan. Replication data for: Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112828V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Causal estimates of the benefits of increased schooling using U.S.
state schooling laws as instruments typically rely on specifications
which assume common trends across states in the factors affecting
different birth cohorts. Differential changes across states during
this period, such as relative school quality improvements, suggest
that this assumption may fail to hold. Across a number of outcomes including wages, unemployment, and divorce, we find that
statistically significant causal estimates become insignificant and,
in many instances, wrong-signed when allowing year of birth effects
to vary across regions.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
I21 Analysis of Education
I28 Education: Government Policy
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
I21 Analysis of Education
I28 Education: Government Policy
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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