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Fernando Antonio Ignacio González; Juan Antonio Dip – Education Economics, 2024
The distance between the birth date and the school entry cutoff has been repeatedly used as an exogenous instrument to examine the impact of several educational programmes. In this work, we analyse the validity of this instrument for the case of Argentina. Considering multiple waves of the Permanent Household Survey we detect the existence of…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Foreign Countries, Birth, Age Differences
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Pilar Beneito; Javier Soria-Espín; Óscar Vicente-Chirivella – Education Economics, 2024
This paper investigates the impact of students' month of birth (MOB) on their university career choices. Specifically, we analyze whether the oldest students in their academic cohorts show more aspirational preferences when expressing their first choice of university degree. Using administrative records for students in a large university district…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Higher Education, STEM Education
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Peña, Pablo A.; Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth – Education Economics, 2021
We analyze whether age relative to school classmates affects the likelihood of becoming famous. We measure such likelihood as the ratio of Wikipedia entries to births, by state and date of birth, among people born in 1969-1988 in the US. Using a reduced-form Regression Discontinuity Design, we find evidence that men born after the Kindergarten…
Descriptors: Reputation, Age Differences, Gender Differences, School Entrance Age
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Asha Shepard – Education Economics, 2024
A large literature documents that there are significant academic and non-academic differences between the youngest and oldest students in a school cohort. This paper investigates if being the youngest in a cohort has any impact on an individual's propensity to commit crime by utilizing a data set that contains over 4 million arrest records…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, School Entrance Age, Crime
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Peña, Pablo A. – Education Economics, 2019
Using public information from birth certificates and prison records from Florida, we adopt a reduced-form approach to estimate the effect of relative age on the probability of incarceration in adulthood (until age 30-40). We use a Regression Discontinuity Design around the cutoff date for Kindergarten enrollment (Sept. 1). We find strong evidence…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Young Adults
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Zhang, Weiguo; Lien, Donald – Education Economics, 2020
This paper explores the relationship between English language skills and earnings among workers in urban China using micro-data from the 2015 China General Social Survey. Using OLS and 2SLS regressions, we find that there are positive economic returns to English language skills (both listening and speaking) among workers in urban China. We also…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Urban Areas, Foreign Countries, Income
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Education Economics, 2019
The present study assesses how education impacts religiosity. Education is instrumented using the changes in the Canadian school leaving age laws. The data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys collected between 1990 and 2011. The effects of education on both affiliation status and religious attendance are considered. Education is found to…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Catholics, Educational Legislation
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Zimmermann, Markus – Education Economics, 2021
This paper estimates the effects of attending a vocational higher track secondary (HTS) school compared to a general HTS school. It considers the case of Germany, where both schools provide access to tertiary education. Identification uses selection-on-observables and instrumental variables strategies. Attending a vocational HTS school has no…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Academic Education, Outcomes of Education
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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
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Patterson, Richard W. – Education Economics, 2017
It is widely believed that the time children spend with parents significantly impacts human capital formation. If time varies significantly between black and white children, this may help explain the large racial gap in test scores and wages. In this study, I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine the patterns in the time black and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Human Capital, Racial Differences, African Americans
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Hansen, Zeynep; Owan, Hideo; Pan, Jie – Education Economics, 2015
We combine class performance data from an undergraduate management course with students' personal records to examine how group diversity affects group work performance and individual learning. Students are exogenously assigned to groups. We find that, on average, male-dominant groups performed worse in their group work and learned less (based…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classroom Environment, Undergraduate Students, Performance Based Assessment
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Dincher, Matthias; Wagner, Valentin – Education Economics, 2021
We conduct a large and nationwide survey among German teachers to investigate the determinants of teachers' adaption to an increased use of educational technology during the COVID-19 school closures. We find that higher levels of technical affinity and higher perceived learning effectiveness of distance teaching are positively associated with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Fumarco, Luca; Schultze, Gabriel – Education Economics, 2020
A large literature shows that relatively young students perform worse in class. Using data from the 'Health Behaviour in School Aged Children' international survey, we additionally find robust evidence that they are aware of performing poorly, they spend more time watching TV and less time doing sports than older peers, while tending to spend as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Student Characteristics, Leisure Time, Time Management
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Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano – Education Economics, 2015
We analyse the relationship between job search and over-education for recent Australian bachelor degree graduates using data from the 2011 Beyond Graduation Survey. Results from panel estimation suggest that jobs found through university careers offices are associated with lower probability of over-education relative to jobs found through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Educational Attainment, Evidence
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Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy – Education Economics, 2017
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Norway I investigate long-term birth month effects. I demonstrate that the oldest children in class have a substantially higher GPA than their younger peers. The birth month differences are larger for low-SES children. Furthermore, I find that the youngest children in class are lagging significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Grade Point Average, Socioeconomic Influences
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