@article{6a41e35def784bd0a9ad90245fa3463f,
title = "Enforcing compulsory schooling through credible coercion: Lessons from Australia{\textquoteright}s Northern Territory intervention",
abstract = "Australia{\textquoteright}s Northern Territory Emergency Response and subsequent School Enrolment and Attendance Measure (SEAM) credibly threatened to remove welfare benefits from Indigenous families if their children failed to attend school regularly. A difference-in-difference analysis of participation rates in the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy shows a substantial increase in participation rates the year after SEAM was implemented. However, administrators rarely carried out the threatened sanctions, and these initial gains largely dissipated in subsequent years. This unique episode illustrates the limited scope for promoting Indigenous school participation through conditional cash penalties.",
author = "Moshe Justman and Kyle Peyton",
note = "Funding Information: This research was initiated when both authors were at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. We thank the Institute and its director at the time, Deborah Cobb-Clark, for their support, and Chris Ryan, for his early encouragement and advice. Thanks also to the editor and referees of this journal, Peter Aronow, Richard Bur-khauser, Danny Cohen-Zada, John Haisken De-New, Nikhil Jha, Patrick Lam, Raymond Orr, Cain Polidano, David Ribar, Ben Stephens, and seminar participants at the University of Melbourne, for their valuable comments and suggestions. This research has not received specific funding from any source. Replication materials are available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ kpeyton. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Economic Society of Australia.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/1475-4932.12418",
language = "English",
volume = "94",
pages = "223--238",
journal = "Economic Record",
issn = "0013-0249",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "306",
}
