Replication data for: Social Interactions in High School: Lessons from an Earthquake

Name: Replication data for: Social Interactions in High School: Lessons from an Earthquake
Published: 2007-06-01
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Keywords: Natural experiment

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Piero Cipollone; Alfonso Rosolia

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Project Citation:

Cipollone, Piero, and Rosolia, Alfonso. Replication data for: Social Interactions in High School: Lessons from an Earthquake. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116278V1

Project Description

Summary: After an earthquake hit Southern Italy in 1980, young men from certain towns were exempted from compulsory military service. We show that the exemption raised high-school-graduation rates of boys by more than 2 percentage points. We do this by comparing high-school-graduation rates of young exempt men and older nonexempt men from the least damaged areas and men of the same age groups from nearby towns that were not hit by the quake. Similar comparisons show that graduation rates of young women in the affected areas also increased. Since in Italy women are not subject to the draft, the findings suggest the presence of spillover effects. (JEL I21, J13)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Natural experiment

JEL Classification:
I21 Analysis of Education
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

Geographic Coverage: Italy

Time Period(s): 1981 – 1991 (1981 and 1991 population censuses)

Universe: italian population

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source: Italian population census; Government reports on 1981 earthquake

Unit(s) of Observation: individuals, towns,

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