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McGeown Plant, A.; Donlevy, J. Kent – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
Compulsory school attendance policies establish a school entry age and a school leaving age for students. In 1916, the Province of Manitoba introduced a compulsory attendance law that mandated students attend school from the age of 7 to the age of 14. Fifty years later, further amendments were made to the school leaving age, but the school entry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, School Entrance Age, Educational Legislation
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Education Economics, 2021
The present paper assesses the causal effects of education on smoking and self-rated health in Canada. Education is instrumented using the changes in compulsory schooling laws. The sample is restricted to cohorts born between 1946 and 1964. The data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys of 1995 and 2016, allowing to observe the evolution of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Correlation, Educational Attainment
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Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Parents have the option of enrolling their children in the first stage of early childhood education (from 0 to 3 years of age). However, not all parents decide to do so, waiting until the second stage of early childhood education to enrol them in the education system (from 3 to 5 years of age), or even until compulsory education when their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Enrollment Influences, Parent Role, Decision Making