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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007
secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277084
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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2007
secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464667
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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007
secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797703
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Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from psychometric data
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - 2011
We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304336
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Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from psychometric data
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869231
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Weber, Andrea Maria; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2006
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational outcomes using two different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277074
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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277101
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The effect of school starting age on academic performance in Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia - 2007
The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using the "Progress in International Reading Literacy Study" (PIRLS) and the "Trends in Mathematics and Science Study" (TIMMS). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494679
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Kinek használ az évvesztés? Iskolakezdési kor és tanulói teljesítmények Magyarországon
Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494714