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School Entry Cutoff and the Timing of Births: Evidence from Argentina
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Fernando Antonio Ignacio González; Juan Antonio Dip – Education Economics, 2024
The distance between the birth date and the school entry cutoff has been repeatedly used as an exogenous instrument to examine the impact of several educational programmes. In this work, we analyse the validity of this instrument for the case of Argentina. Considering multiple waves of the Permanent Household Survey we detect the existence of…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Foreign Countries, Birth, Age Differences
Month of Birth, Early Academic Achievement, and Parental Expectations of University Completion: A New Test on Sticky Expectations
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Fabrizio Bernardi; Manuel T. Valdés – Sociology of Education, 2025
Previous studies have shown that educational expectations of individuals with high socioeconomic status (SES) are relatively unaffected by low academic performance, a phenomenon called "sticky expectations." However, this result might be biased by endogeneity and reverse causality between academic achievement and educational…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Birth, Academic Achievement, Parent Aspiration
School Starting Age and Cognitive Development
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Dhuey, Elizabeth; Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Roth, Jeffrey – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and large-scale population-level birth and school data from the state of Florida. We estimate effects of being old for grade (being born in September vs. August) that are…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Cognitive Development, Correlation, Scores