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Title: Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence From School Entry Laws
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Cascio, Elizabeth Ulrich Lewis, Ethan Gatewood |
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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence From School Entry Laws Working Paper No. 05-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, January 2005. Also: http://www.phil.frb.org/files/wps/2005/wp05-1.pdf; Also IZA Discussion Paper No. 1481. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Keyword(s): Age at School Entry; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); I.Q.; Racial Differences; Schooling; Tests and Testing Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing test-takers with birthdays near state cutoff dates for school entry. We instrument for schooling at the test date with academic cohort—the year in which an individual should have entered first grade—in a model that allows age at the test date to have a direct effect on AFQT performance. This identification strategy reveals large impacts of schooling on the AFQT performance of racial minorities, providing support for the hypothesis that the AFQT measures school achievement. |
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Cascio, Elizabeth Ulrich and Ethan Gatewood Lewis. "Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence From School Entry Laws." Working Paper No. 05-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, January 2005. |