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The long-run impacts of early childhood education : evidence from a failed policy experiment
DeCicca, Philip; Smith, Justin D. - 2011
"We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157619
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Sibling health, schooling and longer-term developmental outcomes
Ryan, Chris; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian … children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543661
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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment
DeCicca, Philip - 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124550
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The Long-Term Effect of Age at School Entry on Competencies in Adulthood
Goerlitz, Katja - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870340
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Is there an optimal school starting age? : it depends : older children perform better on standardized tests, but evidence of older school starting ages on long-term outcomes is mix...
Dhuey, Elizabeth; Koebel, Kourtney - 2022
-understood. Children's primary school entry ages vary worldwide, 2020 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254503
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The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013
Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740303
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The effect of school entrance age on educational outcomes : evidence using multiple cutoff dates and exact date of birth
Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2017
Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes. Unlike much of the recent literature, our identification strategy strictly satisfies the monotonicity assumption required for interpreting our estimates as the local average treatment effect (LATE), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613152
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966974
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971645
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973291