Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds.

Autor/inn/en	Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Leuven, Edwin; Webbink, Dinand
Titel	Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds.
Quelle	Bonn: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor (2006), 27 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsforschung; Empirische Forschung; Vergleich; Erfolg; Vorschule; Schulbesuch; Grundschule; Sprache; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachdefizit; Niederlande
Abstract	This study (PDF Download 27 p.) presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are allowed start school immediately after their 4th birthday instead of at the beginning of the school year. The second is that children having their birthday before, during and after the summer holiday are placed in the same class. These features generate sufficient exogenous variation in children's maximum length of schooling to identify its effects on test scores. Making available one additional month of time in school increases language scores of disadvantaged pupils by 0.06 of a standard deviation and their math scores by 0.05 of a standard deviation. For non-disadvantaged pupils we find no effect.
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2007/4