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Direct linkDickert-Conlin, Stacy; Elder, Todd – Economics of Education Review, 2010
Many states require children to reach age 5 by a specified date in the calendar year in order to begin kindergarten. We use birth certificate records from 1999 to 2004 to assess whether parents systematically time childbirth before these eligibility cutoff dates to capture the option value of sending their child to school at a relatively young…
Descriptors: Costs, Child Care, Parents, Kindergarten
