Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
利用12个欧洲国家义务教育离校年龄改革的数据，发现强制教育提升主要影响低能力群体，且额外教育能降低条件工资不平等，教育与能力在收入函数中呈替代关系。
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational attainment, especially among individuals belonging to the lowest quantiles of the distribution of ability. There is also evidence that additional education reduces conditional wage inequality, and that education and ability are substitutes in the earnings function.