Human capital effects of kindergarten and school enrolment timing

Arbeitspapier

Using instrumental variables approach this paper studies the effect of kindergarten starting age jointly with that of school starting age. We show that estimating the effect of kindergarten or school enrolment timing on later human capital outcomes separately, without taking their inter-relatedness into account, may confound the two effects and produce endogenous results. The instruments originate from exogenous birthdate-related enrolment cutoffs in kindergarten and school admissions. Using a rich Hungarian database, we show that both earlier kindergarten enrolment and later school enrolment have a significant and non-negligible positive effect on standardised test scores in grade 6, 8, and 10, class marks given by the teacher, aspirations for higher education, and track choice. These effects tend to decrease over time and are heterogeneous across mother's education, as earlier kindergarten enrolment age seems to matter only for the children of low educated mothers.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-615-5754-31-9
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market ; No. BWP - 2017/14

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Returns to Education
• Thema: Kindergarten enrolment age ; School enrolment age ; Instrumental Variables

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes ; Horn, Dániel ; Lovász, Anna ; De Witte, Kristof
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies
• (wo): Budapest
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200345
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ