Arbeitspapier

The effect of school starting age on academic performance in Hungary

The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using the "Progress in International Reading Literacy Study" (PIRLS) and the "Trends in Mathematics and Science Study" (TIMMS). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting the exogenous variation in school starting age driven by the children's month of birth and the cut-off date regulation for enrolment. The results indicate a positive age effect on Reading, Mathematics and Science performance.

ISBN
978-963-9588-00-3
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market ; No. BWP - 2007/2

Classification
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education: Government Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Subject
Education
student test scores
enrolment age
identification
Schüler
Altersgruppe
Bildung
Bildungsertrag
Studium
Ungarn

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hámori, Szilvia
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
(where)
Budapest
(when)
2007

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hámori, Szilvia
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2007

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