Redshirting, Compulsory Schooling Laws, and Educational Attainment

Educational Expansion and Occupational Change : U . S . Compulsory Schooling Laws

Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Educational Assortative Mating: The Importance of Context.

Modernization theory predicts that rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests that effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors, such as economic development. Using log-linear 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 ed...

No 1374 October 2015 Crime , Compulsory Schooling Laws and Education

Do compulsory schooling laws reduce crime? Previous evidence for the U.S. from the 1960s and 1970s suggests they do, primarily working through their effect on educational attainment to generate a causal impact on crime. In this paper, we consider whether more recent experience replicates this. There are two key findings. First, there is a strong and consistent negative effect on crime from stri...

The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to humancapital investments. Attend...

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of schooling was increased from eight to...