Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58669 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6464
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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