School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE. NBER Working Paper No. 15236

Autor/inn/en	Barua, Rashmi; Lang, Kevin
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE. NBER Working Paper No. 15236
Quelle	(2009) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Age Differences; School Entrance Age; Testing; Accountability; Test Bias; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Einschulungsalter; Testdurchführung; Testen; Verantwortung; Testkritik; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Partly in response to increased testing and accountability, states and districts have been raising the minimum school entry age, but existing studies show mixed results regarding the effects of entry age. These studies may be severely biased because they violate the monotonicity assumption needed for LATE. We propose an instrument not subject to this bias and show no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier cutoff. We then estimate a structural model of optimal entry age that reconciles the different IV estimates including ours. We find that one standard instrument is badly biased but that the other diverges from ours because it estimates a different LATE. We also find that an early entry age cutoff that is applied loosely (as in the 1950s) is beneficial but one that is strictly enforced is not. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10