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Fabrizio Bernardi; Manuel T. Valdés – Sociology of Education, 2025
Previous studies have shown that educational expectations of individuals with high socioeconomic status (SES) are relatively unaffected by low academic performance, a phenomenon called "sticky expectations." However, this result might be biased by endogeneity and reverse causality between academic achievement and educational…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Birth, Academic Achievement, Parent Aspiration
Dhuey, Elizabeth; Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Roth, Jeffrey – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from ages 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 vs. August) that are…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Cognitive Development, Correlation, Scores
Drummond, Mary Jane – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2004
In the past, there were no four-year-olds to be found in infant or primary schools. The statutory school age of five had been established in 1870, after a hurried and confused debate in the House of Commons; one hundred years later, it was a regulation still honoured in practice. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, children started school in the term…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Primary Education, School Entrance Age, School Policy

Brent, Donna; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1996
Examined the incidence of delayed kindergarten entry in a suburban school district over a 12-year period. Results indicated that there had been a significant increase in the number of children who had delayed school entry. Significantly more males than females delayed kindergarten entry, and the majority of children delaying school entry had…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies