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Title: When Should Children Start School?

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This paper studies causal effects informative for deciding the age when children should start kindergarten. I present evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) that standard instrumental variable strategies do not identify effects of delaying kindergarten entry for any subpopulation of interest. I propose and implement a new strategy for identifying individual-level education production function parameters. Estimates indicate that there can be decreasing and even negative returns to relative age: For the oldest children in a cohort, educational achievement in third grade decreases as their age relative to that of their classmates increases.

Url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/679109

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Authors: Aliprantis, Dionissi

Periodical (Full): Journal of Human Capital

Issue: 4

Volume: 8

Pages: 481-536

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Topics: Education

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