Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?

Autor/inn/en	Dobkin, Carlos; Ferreira, Fernando
Titel	Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 29 (2010) 1, S.40-54 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.04.003
Schlagwörter	School Law; School Entrance Age; Educational Attainment; Labor Market; Education Work Relationship; California; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Einschulungsalter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Kalifornien
Abstract	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 entry laws increased educational attainment of students who enter school early, but also lowered their academic performance while in school. However, we find no evidence that the age at which children enter school effects job market outcomes, such as wages or the probability of employment. This suggests that the net effect on adult labor market outcomes of the increased educational attainment and poorer academic performance is close to zero. (Contains 7 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10