Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32081 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 151
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Law and Economics, Darmstadt
Abstract: 
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after 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 attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years of age: Test scores at the end of primary school increase by about 0.42 standard deviations and years of secondary schooling increase by almost half a year.
Subjects: 
education
immigration
policy
identification
JEL: 
I21
I28
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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