We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from age 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 versus August) that are…

We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less affluent families and negative spillover effects from a…

The authors examined long-term outcomes for children who experienced delayed entry to kindergarten or kindergarten retention. They used a cohort of 6,841 students to compare these groups to each other and typically progressing peers. First, the authors compared the groups on demographic and early childhood variables. For the long-term school-based…

Although it is well established that Black male students are underrepresented in gifted educational programs in the United States, due to a scarcity of longitudinal prospective research, little is known about the protective factors at the child, family, and school level that increase the probability of Black male students being identified as…

LATE SCHOOL ENTRANTS WERE SELECTED AND MATCHED WITH EARLY SCHOOL ENTRANTS ON THE BASES OF AGE, IQ, SEX, SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, AND CLASSROOM. IN ADDITION, LATE SCHOOL ENTRANTS WERE SELECTED FROM THE SAME GRADE RANGES FROM ALL LATE SCHOOL ENTRANTS IN THE COUNTY AND COMPARED WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF RANDOMLY SELECTED EARLY SCHOOL ENTRANTS FROM ONE…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LATE ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF THE TRANSFER CHILD AND OTHER MEMBERS WITHIN THE CLASSROOM STRUCTURE WAS INVESTIGATED. FOUR ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF LATE SCHOOL ENTRANCE WERE EXAMINED. NOTED EFFECTS WERE ON--(1) THE TOTAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE CLASSROOM, (2) THE…

The first part of this document presents the results of a survey of early entrance testing procedures in 25 Florida districts and details teacher ratings of 486 first-grade and 154 kindergarten students whose entrance test results had permitted them to enter kindergarten a year earlier than other students with birthdays between October and…