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The Return to Schooling among High School Dropouts: Evidence from Britain's Compulsory Schooling Changes
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IZA Seminar |
Place: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn |
Date: 01.10.2015, 12:00 - 13:30 |
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Presentation by |
Damon Clark
(University of California, Irvine)
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Abstract: |
Estimates of the labor market return to schooling among high school dropouts can reveal much about how individuals acquire human capital and how policy-makers can foster human capital accumulation. In this paper I use the 1947 and 1972 British compulsory schooling changes to estimate this return - comparing labor market outcomes of students who left high school at the earliest opportunity with students born a few days later who, because of a change in the compulsory schooling laws, were required to attend school for an extra year. Using newly-assembled administrative data, I report estimates for a wide range of labor market outcomes. |
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For more information, please contact seminar@iza.org
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