@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp16864, author={Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. and Dahmann, Sarah C. and Kamhöfer, Daniel A. and Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah}, title={Schooling and Self-Control}, year={2024}, month={Mar}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={16864}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16864}, abstract={While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality remains a matter of debate. We make a contribution to resolving this issue by exploiting a series of Australian and German educational reforms that increased minimum education requirements as a source of exogenous variation in education levels. Instrumental variables estimates suggest that, for people affected by the reforms, an additional year of schooling has no effect on self-control.}, keywords={self-control;quasi-experiments;compulsory schooling reforms;Brief Self-Control Scale}, }