CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Meszaros, Thomas Richard |
|---|---|
| Title | The Effect of Increasing Years of Compulsory Education on Cognitive Abilities in Old Age - Evidence from European Countries |
| Summary | The following paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) data for identifying the effects of increasing years of compulsory education on cognitive abilities for the elderly population over 50 years old in Europe. The analysis estimates the effect on compulsory schooling reforms on educational attainment and memory scores. The evaluation method is based on a regression discontinuity design. In the analysis I compare reform affected birth cohorts, with reform not affected birth cohorts in the environment of the first potentially affected birth cohort. The main results are the following: the country pooled regression estimates show that the compulsory schooling reforms have a statistically significant effect on education, and have a positive but statistically not significant effect on memory. |
| Supervisor | Kezdi, Gabor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/meszaros_thomas.pdf |
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