Schooling and Self-Control

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer () and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch ()
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Daniel A. Kamhöfer: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

No 16864, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: 19 pages
Date: 2024-03
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