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Why Am I Late for School? Peer Effects on Delayed School Entry in Rural Northwestern China
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Chen, Qihui – Education Economics, 2021
This paper estimates peer effects on children's school entry age, using a dataset on 4,165 children from rural northwestern China (Gansu province). Instrumental-variable estimation, exploiting variations in (older) peers' home-to-school distance to identify the effect of their school entry age, reveals that a one-year increase in (older) peers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, School Entrance Age, Age Differences