Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Autor/inn/en	Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Webbink, Dinand
Titel	Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 29 (2010) 3, S.319-328 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.10.004
Schlagwörter	Disadvantaged; Academic Achievement; Early Childhood Education; Young Children; Scores; Language Skills; Mathematics Achievement; Age Differences; School Entrance Age; Foreign Countries; Quasiexperimental Design; Outcomes of Education; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Frühe Kindheit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Einschulungsalter; Ausland; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Niederlande
Abstract	We use a novel quasi-experimental strategy to estimate the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in The Netherlands. The first is rolling admissions; children are allowed to start school immediately after their 4th birthday instead of at the beginning of the school year. The second is that children having their birthday before, during and after the summer holiday are placed in the same class. These features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children's enrollment opportunities to identify its effects on test scores. Making available one additional month of time in school increases language scores of disadvantaged pupils by 6 percent of a standard deviation and their math scores by 5 percent of a standard deviation. For non-disadvantaged pupils we find no effect. (Contains 1 figure and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10