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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

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Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...

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The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …

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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Mühlenweg (née Weber), Andrea … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …

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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary

Hámori, Szilvia; Kollo, Janos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...

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