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Direct linkAdriano Villar-Aldonza; María-Jesús Mancebón; José-María Gómez- Sancho – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study investigates the reasons behind the decision to send children aged under three to ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) and the causes that may explain why some families send their child to ECEC once they reach the age of two while others decide to do so at an earlier age. To answer the first question posed a probit model is used,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Infants, Toddlers
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
Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar David; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
The education laws of each country establish starting cutoff dates for compulsory education which could, potentially, affect students' academic achievement. Specifically, they could be detrimental for those students whose birthday is just before the school entry cutoff, as they will be the youngest in their classroom, while it could boost the…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Ability
Download full textKandeel, Refat Abdelsamad Abouelgheat – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The study aimed to determine the levels of mathematics proficiency among Saudi learners and to compare them with the learners' levels of the first country globally (B-S-J-Z -- China) and regionally (UAE) according to the results of PISA 2018, as well as to identify some of the learners' characteristics that affected their results and their…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Bernardi, Fabrizio – Sociology of Education, 2014
Compensatory advantage is a mechanism of social stratification that complements cumulative advantage and path dependence. In this article, I first discuss the theoretical foundations of the compensatory advantage and path dependence mechanisms and the methodological challenges that complicate identification of their effects. Next, I present a…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Zhang, Jiahui; Xin, Tao – Online Submission, 2012
This study aimed to investigate the effects of kindergarten enrollment age on four-year-old Chinese children's early cognition and problem behavior using multilevel models. The sample comprised of 1,391 pre-school children (the mean age is 4.58 years old) from 74 kindergartens in six different provinces. The results demonstrated curvilinear…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Kindergarten, Young Children, Child Development
