Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/287753 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 413
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
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.
Subjects: 
self-control
quasi-experiments
compulsory schooling reforms
Brief Self-Control Scale
JEL: 
D90
I26
C26
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-412-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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