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Does Delaying Kindergarten Entrance Give Children a Head Start
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In this paper, the authors used exogenous variation in birth dates and kindergarten entrance age policies to generate instrumental variable estimates of the effect of delaying kindergarten entrance on children's academic achievement, finding that entering kindergarten a year older significantly boosts test scores at kindergarten entry.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2006-02-01. It has received 278 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Head start.read more
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The Persistence of Early Childhood Maturity: International Evidence of Long-Run Age Effects
Kelly Bedard,Elizabeth Dhuey +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that a continuum of ages exists within each starting class due to the use of a single school cut-off date, making the older children approximately twenty percent older than the younger children at school entry.
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The Effect of Maternal Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
TL;DR: It is argued that school entry policies manipulate primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school.
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The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
Justin McCrary,Heather Royer +1 more
TL;DR: This article used age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health and found that school entry policies manipulate primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school.
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers
Todd E. Elder,Darren Lubotsky +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that children who are relatively old when they enter kindergarten score higher on achievement tests and are less likely to repeat grades or suffer from learning disabilities than their younger classmates.
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers
Todd E. Elder,Darren Lubotsky +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that the positive relationship between kindergarten entrance age and school achievement primarily reflects skill accumulation prior to kindergarten, rather than a heightened ability to learn in school among older children, and that having older classmates boosts a child's test scores but increases the probability of grade repetition and diagnoses of learning disabilities such as ADHD.
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Applications of Item Response Theory To Practical Testing Problems
TL;DR: The application of item response theory to practical testing problems is discussed in this article, where the authors present an example of the application of the theory to real-world testing problems in a practical setting.
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Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
TL;DR: In this article, the use of instruments that explain little of the variation in the endogenous explanatory variables can lead to large inconsistencies in the IV estimates even if only a weak relationship exists between the instruments and the error in the structural equation.
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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings
TL;DR: This paper found that the season of birth is related to educational attainment and earnings, and that roughly 25 percent of potential dropouts remain in school because of compulsory schooling laws. But, they did not study the effect of compulsory attendance laws on educational attainment.
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment: An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples
Joshua D. Angrist,Joshua D. Angrist,Joshua D. Angrist,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an Instrumental Variables (IV) estimator with data derived from the 1960 and 1980 Censuses to test the age-at-entry/compulsory schooling model.
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