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Testing the Internal Validity of Compulsory School Reforms as Instrument for Years of Schooling

In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are correlated to changes in school quality, and school quality is an omitted variable, this identification strategy may fail. We test whether this is the case by using the information provided by two distinct test scores on mathematics and reading and find that we cannot reject the internal validity of this popular identification strategy.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 911

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brunello, Giorgio
Fort, Margherita
Weber, Guglielmo
Weiss, Christoph
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
(wo)
Bologna
(wann)
2013

DOI
doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/3872
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Brunello, Giorgio
  • Fort, Margherita
  • Weber, Guglielmo
  • Weiss, Christoph
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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