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Early School Entrance and Middle-Run Academic Performance in Mexico: Evidence for 15-Year-Old Students from the PISA Test
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Aguayo-Téllez, Ernesto; Martínez-Rodríguez, Flor E. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Using an unanticipated policy reform in Mexico that shifted 4 months the cutoff date for elementary school eligibility in 2006 and information on academic performance of 15-year-old students from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 survey, who entered first grade in 2006, this paper estimates the effects of starting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
The Effect of Free Primary Education Policy on Late School Entry in Urban Primary Schools in Kenya
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Ngware, Moses W.; Oketch, Moses; Ezeh, Alex C.; Mutisya, Maurice – International Review of Education, 2013
Late school entry is driven by several factors, one of the key ones being the cost barrier to schooling. Policies such as free primary education (FPE) that advocate for universal coverage are therefore partly aimed at removing the cost barrier. The Kenyan Government, like many in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), introduced FPE in 2003 with the aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Education