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Direct linkCascio, Elizabeth; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Older children outperform younger children in a school-entry cohort well into their school careers. The existing literature has provided little insight into the causes of this phenomenon, leaving open the possibility that school-entry age is zero-sum game, where relatively young students lose what relatively old students gain. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Longitudinal Studies
