Performance in Home Schooling: An Argument against Compulsory Schooling in the Netherlands

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...

Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial decrease in childlessness and an increase in...

State, Family and Compulsory Schooling in Ireland

Legal sanctions to compel parents into sending their children more regularly to school were widely applied in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1950s, following which the practice declined substantially and changed in nature in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper documents the history of these sanctions and draws attention to their application as an extensive and intrusive form of state intervention in...

More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe.

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies report causal effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality ranging anywhere from zero to large and negative. Using data from 18 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we quantify the average mortality gain and explore its disp...