Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-The-Century America: A

摘要: Recent research by Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger has used information on exact dates of birth in the 1960 to 1980 federal censuses study impact compulsory schooling laws school attendance. This paper modifies their methodology analyze similar data 1900 census measure turn-of-the-century laws. Using 14-year olds from public use microdata sample we compare attendance rates children born after January 1, with those before, across states without In that combined school-leaving child labor laws, find compulsion significantly raised rates.