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Direct linkHurwitz, Michael; Smith, Jonathan; Howell, Jessica S. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015
Using a rich data set of all SAT test takers from the 2004 through 2008 high school graduation cohorts, we investigate the impact of state-specific school age-of-entry laws on students' pathways into and through college. We document that these laws do not impact the probability that a student takes the SAT; however, we find strong evidence that…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, School Law, High School Graduates, College Entrance Examinations
Cascio, 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
