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DeCicca, Philip; Smith, Justin D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully increases in tenth grade math and reading scores.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Low Income Groups, Early Childhood Education, Children