Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-the Century America: A `natural experiment' approach

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(96)00882-8MaRDI QIDQ673324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert A. Margo, T. Aldrich Finegan

Publication date 28 February 1997

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(96)00882-8

zbMATH Keywords

Compulsory schoolingNatural experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Mathematical economics (91B99)

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