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Using data on attitudes and knowledge among about 30,000 students from Greece, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden, we employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design in which we exploit the exogenous variation related to school entry age.
Only 58% of Grade 1 students are six years old, the prescribed school entry age.
The difficulties stem from the fact that the school entry age is not equal across countries.
Researchers said Northern Ireland had the lowest statutory school entry age in Europe, at four.
We cannot force countries to harmonize the school entry age, but we can make adjustment to correct for observed differences.
Due to data limitation, we are not able to directly test the effects of children's school entry age on adult achievement outcomes.
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Does variation between people who live in states with "early" and "late" school entry ages (combined with random variation in their birth dates) identify exogenous variation in children's education in a mortality study?
Instrumental variable estimation is a promising approach to tackle the problems associated with early or late school entry ages.
The council was forced to abandon a plan to change school entry ages in 2013 after a judicial review.
However, due to different school entry ages across countries, the samples typically cover students that differ either in terms of age, grade, or both.
In Sections 4.3 and 4.4, we present our main results and discuss potential mechanisms through which school-entry age is related to college admission.
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