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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 31.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Jul 31;127:63–73. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.056

Table 4.

Unemployment Rates at Age Required by Compulsory Schooling Laws (CSLs) and Outcomes

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Dependent variables Income Quartile
(1:highest -
4:lowest)		 General Poor
Health (Yes =
1)		 Life dissatisfaction
(Yes = 1)		 Obesity
(Yes = 1)		 Smoker
(Yes = 1)		 Daily drinker
(Yes = 1)
Panel A: Unemployment rate in year of graduation
Unemployment rate 1.849**
(0.411)
[0.670]		 0.286*
(0.168)
[0.254]		 0.233**
(0.101)
[0.082]		 0.341**
(0.168)
[0.203]		 0.687**
(0.150)
[0.239]		 0.056
(0.182)
[0.166]
(Education - 9)* UR −0.254**
(0.063)
[0.123]		 −0.060**
(0.022)
[0.026]		 −0.057**
(0.012)
[0.016]		 −0.042*
(0.024)
[0.022]		 −0.086**
(0.023)
[0.043]		 −0.028
(0.027)
[0.021]
Observations 31,622 14,498 36,871 9,348 23,391 9,167
R-squared 0.271 0.064 0.070 0.042 0.078 0.071
Panel B: Unemployment rate at the l east graduation age required by CSLs
Unemployment rate 1.534**
(0.401)
[0.820]		 0.327**
(0.162)
[0.183]		 0.182**
(0.091)
[0.112]		 0.297*
(0.169)
[0.210]		 0.067
(0.174)
[0.294]		 0.038
(0.185)
[0.207]
(Education - 9)* UR −0.436**
(0.061)
[0.158]		 −0.063**
(0.019)
[0.023]		 −0.065**
(0.011)
[0.010]		 −0.046**
(0.021)
[0.027]		 −0.138**
(0.021)
[0.053]		 −0.013
(0.020)
[0.013]
Observations 31,622 14,498 36,871 9,348 23,391 9,167
R-squared 0.273 0.064 0.071 0.042 0.079 0.071

Note: The countries in this table include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. See Table 2 notes for specification details.

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1