This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the existence of diminishing returns to education that limit the extension of compulsory schooling. Then we test whether convergence still holds when one controls for the major three alternative explanations described in the literature, which are respectively based on technology and trade, institutions, and the budget constraint of governments. Conditional convergence does hold and we find that openness, membership of the European Union, urbanization and ...
Neste artigo debate-se a tensão existente entre a prescrição normativa da obrigatoriedade de frequên...
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the change...
This paper presents a synthesis of our investigations concerned with the relationship between educat...
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over...
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over...
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over...
From 1945 to 1975, fifteen Western European countries passed school-leaving age laws that raised the...
number of years of compulsory schooling for the first time after the Second World War. In order to u...
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1...
none3Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the c...
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the chang...
<p>In this paper, we present the historical time series of enrollment rates in upper secondary schoo...
Reforms in the minimum school-leaving age are candidates for policies that affect the intergeneratio...
This study seeks to explain changes in the proportion of 16 year olds, 17 year olds and 18 year olds...
This study seeks to explain changes in the proportion of 16 year olds, 17 year olds and 18 year olds...
Neste artigo debate-se a tensão existente entre a prescrição normativa da obrigatoriedade de frequên...
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the change...
This paper presents a synthesis of our investigations concerned with the relationship between educat...
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over...
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over...
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over...
From 1945 to 1975, fifteen Western European countries passed school-leaving age laws that raised the...
number of years of compulsory schooling for the first time after the Second World War. In order to u...
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1...
none3Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the c...
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the chang...
<p>In this paper, we present the historical time series of enrollment rates in upper secondary schoo...
Reforms in the minimum school-leaving age are candidates for policies that affect the intergeneratio...
This study seeks to explain changes in the proportion of 16 year olds, 17 year olds and 18 year olds...
This study seeks to explain changes in the proportion of 16 year olds, 17 year olds and 18 year olds...
Neste artigo debate-se a tensão existente entre a prescrição normativa da obrigatoriedade de frequên...
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the change...
This paper presents a synthesis of our investigations concerned with the relationship between educat...