Add to ORKGBy the mid-19th century, America was the best educated nation on Earth: signi…cant …nancial investments in education were being undertaken and the majority of children vol-untarily attended public schools. So why did American states start introducing compulsory schooling laws at this point in time? We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence that compulsory schooling laws were used as a nation-building tool to homogenize the civic values held by the tens of millions of culturally diverse migrants who moved to America during the ‘Age of Mass Migration ’ between 1850 and 1914. Using state level data, we show the adoption of compulsory schooling laws occurred signi…cantly earlier in states that hosted a subgroup of European migrants with ...
This paper uses exogenous variation in family schooling decisions induced by compulsory schooling la...
School attendance and enrollment rates in the United States, which rose substantially between 1870 a...
In the three decades after 1910 the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary...
By the mid-19th century, America was the best educated nation on Earth: significant financial invest...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, whi...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, whi...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, whi...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, whi...
Recent research by Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger has used information on exact dates of birth in t...
This paper uses exogenous variation in family schooling decisions induced by compulsory schooling la...
School attendance and enrollment rates in the United States, which rose substantially between 1870 a...
In the three decades after 1910 the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary...
By the mid-19th century, America was the best educated nation on Earth: significant financial invest...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
By the mid-19th century, America was the most educated nation on Earth: signifcant …nancial investme...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, whi...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, whi...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, whi...
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, whi...
Recent research by Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger has used information on exact dates of birth in t...
This paper uses exogenous variation in family schooling decisions induced by compulsory schooling la...
School attendance and enrollment rates in the United States, which rose substantially between 1870 a...
In the three decades after 1910 the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary...