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Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?
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Dobkin, Carlos; Ferreira, Fernando – Economics of Education Review, 2010
Age based school entry laws force parents and educators to consider an important tradeoff: though students who are the youngest in their school cohort typically have poorer academic performance, on average, they have slightly higher educational attainment. In this paper we document that for a large cohort of California and Texas natives the school…
Descriptors: School Law, School Entrance Age, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes? NBER Working Paper No. 14945
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Dobkin, Carlos; Ferreira, Fernando – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
Age based school entry laws force parents and educators to consider an important tradeoff: Though students who are the youngest in their school cohort typically have poorer academic performance, on average, they have slightly higher educational attainment. In this paper we document that for a large cohort of California and Texas natives the school…
Descriptors: School Law, School Entrance Age, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment