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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"entry age"”.
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Effects of Kindergarten Entry Age on Writing Achievement
<p>This study examines if the age at which a child enters kindergarten has an effect on his or her writing achievement in kindergarten. The current literature finds a correlation between entry age and academic achievement; however, entry age does affect various groups of students differently. The …
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Entry Age and Reading Level by the End of Third Grade.
… who entered kindergarten on or after the age of 4 but before 5, those who entered between the ages of 5 and 6 and those who entered kindergarten after turning 6 years old. A quasi-experimental design was selected because preexisting data were collected on 1,384 third grade students in an …
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Three Pension Cost Methods under Varying Assumptions
… projected unit credit cost method, and the entry age cost method. Both the constant dollar and the constant percent versions of the entry age cost method are considered.
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Essays on the Economics of Education and Gender
… 2, we analyze the effect of school starting age on children's learning outcomes and noncognitive skills through the first two years of primary school. We exploit a sharp date of birth cutoff for school entrance to identify the school starting age effect. We test whether the effect of entrance …
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Three essays on the family gap and child education
… first two chapters discuss the difference in wages between mothers and non-mothers, known as the family gap or the motherhood wage gap, and the last chapter discusses child education and parenting. In the first chapter, I analyze recent trends in the motherhood wage gap, taking into account …
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Essays on Academic Achievement and Student Behavior in Public Schools
… Public Schools to examine the impacts of school entry age on student academic outcomes (including test scores and high school graduation) and behavioral outcomes (such as suspensions and chronic absenteeism) for students in grades three through ten. My research design uses exogenous variation in …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… investigates the influence of school starting age on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Previous literature found a positive impact of relatively older school starting age on students’ cognitive skills based on national representative data from a few OECD countries. This study uses new survey …