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Staying in the Classroom and out of the maternity ward? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births

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SandraE. Black
PaulJ. Devereux
KjellG. Salvanes

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This article investigates whether increasing mandatory educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing. We use variation induced by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the US and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different institutional environments. We find evidence that increased compulsory schooling does in fact reduce the incidence of teenage childbearing in both the US and Norway, and these estimates are quite robust to various specification checks. These results suggest that legislation aimed at improving educational outcomes may have spillover effects onto the fertility decisions of teenagers. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2008.

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Volume (Year): 118 (2008)
Issue (Month): 530 (07)
Pages: 1025-1054
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  1. Sandra E. Black & Paul J. Devereux & Kjell G. Salvanes, 2008. "Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age," NBER Working Papers 13969, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Holmlund, Helena & Lindahl, Mikael & Plug, Erik, 2008. "The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods," IZA Discussion Papers 3630, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  3. Devereux, Paul & Hart, Robert A., 2008. "Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain," IZA Discussion Papers 3305, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  4. Paul J. Devereux & Gautam Tripathi, 2008. "Optimally combining Censored and Uncensored Datasets," Working Papers 200820, School Of Economics, University College Dublin. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Machin, Stephen & Pelkonen, Panu & Salvanes, Kjell G., 2008. "Education and Mobility," IZA Discussion Papers 3845, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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