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Jerrim, John; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar David – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Grade retention has been the focus of the education debate in Spain for decades. On average, more than 30% of students have repeated at least one grade before they finish (or dropout from) their compulsory studies. The present research provides new evidence on this issue by investigating the influence of Spain's school entry age upon students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, School Entrance Age, Age Differences
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Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan G. – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
How much can late schooling investments close racial and ethnic skill gaps? We investigate this question by exploiting the large differences in completed schooling that arise among teenagers with birthdays near school-entry cutoff dates. We estimate that an additional year of high school raises the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) scores of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Scores, Birth, Adolescents