Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22444 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 332
Publisher: 
Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational outcomes using two different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation in month of birth. We find robust and significant positive effects on educational outcomes for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years of age: Test scores at the end of primary school increase by about 0.40 standard deviations and the probability to attend the highest secondary schooling track (Gymnasium) increases by about twelve percentage points.
Subjects: 
education
immigration
policy
identification
JEL: 
J24
I21
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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