Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: C Green
Author-Name-First: C
Author-Name-Last: Green
Author-Name: M Navarro Paniagua
Author-Name-First: M
Author-Name-Last: Navarro Paniagua
Title: Does Raising the School Leaving Age Reduce
Teacher Effort? A Note from a Policy
Experiment
Abstract: This paper examines the impact of an increase in the school leaving
age on high school teachers’ absence behaviour. We estimate differ-
ence in difference models of absenteeism using count data approaches.
Employing data from the Spanish Labour Force Survey, our findings
suggest that high school teachers reduced their effort due to the re-
form that raised the age of compulsory education commencing in the
academic year 1998-1999 in Spain. In particular, they take 15% more
sickness absence in the posttreatment period. This result should be
of interest to both policy makers and researchers who rely upon com-
pulsory school law changes as a source of exogenous variation in edu-
cational attainment.
Creation-Date: 2010
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/TeacherEffort.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 609674
Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: Absenteeism, Compulsory Schooling Laws, Count data, Teachers
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:609674