The effect of parental exposure to CS laws βc on the child is here identified across children who live in the state and are born in the same year, but whose parental exposure to CS - which varies at the parental state of birth s′ and parental year of birth y′ level - varies. [...] To get a better sense of the magnitude of our estimates, and to understand the scope and effectiveness of the CS laws, we first characterize the population for whom these laws were binding and then simulate what the policy effects would have been under perfect enforcement of the CS laws. [...] In the Parent sample, we set the years of schooling Educpi to 15 the minimum mandated years of CS CSps′y′ in their state s ′ and cohort y′ for those who in actuality completed fewer years of schooling Educpi than were mandated CS p s′,y′ , and leave the years of schooling Educpi the same for those that completed more than the minimum mandated years of CS CSps′y′. [...] It could be that the effects of parental exposure to CS on the schooling of the child are largely confined to the lower end of the distribution of parental educational attainment. [...] Specifically, we estimate the effect of parental exposure to CS on the following family-level outcomes: the maximum, minimum, and average years of schooling of their children and the years of schooling of the eldest and youngest sons and daughters.
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