Schooling and self-control

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer () and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch ()
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Daniel A. Kamhöfer: Institute of Economics, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch: Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series from Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Abstract: While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality remains a matter of debate. We make a contribution to resolving this issue by exploiting a series of Australian and German educational reforms that increased minimum education requirements as a source of exogenous variation in education levels. Instrumental variables estimates suggest that, for people affected by the reforms, an additional year of schooling has no effect on self-control.

Keywords: self-control; quasi-experiments; compulsory schooling reforms; Brief Self-Control Scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 D90 I26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20pp
Date: 2024-03
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