Compulsory Schooling Legislation
An Economic Analysis of Law and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 10101014 |
|---|---|
| Autores | William M Landes (Columbia University, autor correspondente), Lewis C Solmon (City University of New York) |
| Ano | 1972 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 54-91 |
| Data de publicação | 1972-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700075392 |
| OpenAlex | W2137922399 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 42 |
| Referências citadas | 5 |
The role of law in relation to social change is not well understood. One reason for our ignorance is the lack of evidence on the causal role of legislation. Too often the efforts at social reform and the intended consequences of legislation are accepted as proof that behavior has been significantly altered. A case in point is legislation that compels children to attend school. Although it is commonly believed that such laws have been effective in increasing the participation of children in schooling systems in the United States over the last 100 years, there is little evidence to support or reject this belief. Some persons have questioned whether these laws have been the cause or the result of observed increases in school attainment. Still others have doubted the degree to which compulsory schooling laws have been enforced. Reports of widespread truancy in urban schools today call into question not only present enforcement difficulties but also whether these laws were effectively enforced from their inception in the nineteenth century. Yet, in spite of the contemporary and historical interest in compulsory school attendance laws, the basic question remains unanswered: what has been the effect, if any, of these laws on school enrollment and attendance
Attendance · Compulsory education · Enforcement · Ignorance · Legislation · Political science · Truancy · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Law · School Choice and Performance · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis from 1915 to 1939
Why the United States Led in Education
Immigration, Culture, and Child Labor in the United States, 1880-1920
The Impact of State Labor Regulations on Manufacturing Input Demand During the Progressive Era
Education and Social Programs
Public Education as Nation-Building in America
The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling
The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States
Technical Change and the Expansion of Schooling in the United States, 1890-1970
Fertility decline in the United States, 1850-1930
Fertility decline in the United States, 1850-1930
Urban Enrollments and the Growth of Schooling
Agricultural Organization and Educational Consumption in the U.S. in 1900
Child Labor and the Factory Acts
Judicial Activism and the Origins of Parental Choice
Schooling for Some
Reflections on the history of adolescence in America
The Law and Urban Change
The effect of compulsory schooling laws and child labor restrictions on fertility
Promoting priorities
From duty to right
Toward a Theoretical Perspective on the Legislation of Adolescence
Early Adolescence in Antebellum America
Technological Development and Adolescence
The new compulsory schooling age policy in NSW, Australia
Fixing the Facts
Children's and Mothers' Wage Labor in Three Eastern U.S. Cities, 1880-1920
Human capital of the US deaf population from 1850 to 1910
Social Structure and U.S. Inter-State Fertility Differentials in 1900
Compulsory Schooling Laws and Migration Across European Countries
Ready, Willing, and Able? Impediments to the Onset of Marital Fertility Decline in the United States
Marriage Delayed and Equalized
Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day
The historical evolution of female earnings functions and occupations
State Child Labor Laws and the Decline of Child Labor
Standards, Curriculum, and Performance
The Expansion and Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe, 1950-2000
Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration
Compulsory School Attendance and the Elementary Education Act of 1870
Common, Delinquent, and Special
Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting Nineteenth-Century U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws
Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco
| Obras citantes distintas | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,88 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1978 - 2025 (48) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 42 |