Abstract
In this note, we use the UK Labour Force Survey to estimate the wage return to an additional year of schooling for Scotland and Northern Ireland exploiting the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA). Prior literature on this topic has consistently ignored both countries in a UK context, likely due to an incorrect belief that they were not affected by the 1972 RoSLA until some years later. We demonstrate that both countries were affected by the education reform in 1972 and our estimates suggest a positive effect on hourly wages for Scotland.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 572-582 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Scottish Journal of Political Economy |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 2 Aug 2018 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2018 |
Keywords
- Returns to education
- Raising of the school leaving age
- Earnings
- Instrumental variables (IV)
- Scotland, Northern Ireland
Access to Document
- Buscha, Dickson (2018) SJPE
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Buscha, F and Dickson, M., 2018. A note on the wage effects of the 1972 raising of the school leaving age in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12187. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.