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| Title: | | No pass no drive: Education and allocation of time  |
| Authors: | | Barua, Rashmi Vidal-Fernández, Marian |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6464 |
| Abstract: | | Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements for teenagers to obtain driving licenses. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Monitoring the Future (MTF), we exploit variation across state, time, and cohort to show that NPND laws led to a 6.4 percentage point increase in the probability of graduating from high school among black males. Further, we show that NPND laws were effective in reducing truancy and increased time allocated to school-work at the expense of leisure and work. |
| Subjects: | | negative incentives education allocation of time dropout No Pass No Drive laws |
| JEL: | | J08 J22 I2 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201208065460 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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