Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage

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We study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage: age at school entry. First, we document that younger children in Spain perform significantly worse at school than their older peers and, key to causality, for children born in winter this ef...

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Autores principales: Berniell, María Inés, Estrada, Ricardo
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
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Ciencias Económicas
parental investment
age at school entry
education inequality
compensating behaviour
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169112
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1691122024-09-02T20:02:08Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169112 Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage Berniell, María Inés Estrada, Ricardo 2018-11 2018 2024-08-27T13:02:56Z en Ciencias Económicas parental investment age at school entry education inequality compensating behaviour We study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage: age at school entry. First, we document that younger children in Spain perform significantly worse at school than their older peers and, key to causality, for children born in winter this effect is not due to seasonality. Furthermore, this effect is significantly greater among children from disadvantaged families. Then, we analyze data on parental investment and find that college-educated parents increase their time investment and choose better schools when their children are the youngest at school, while non-college-educated parents do not. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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parental investment
age at school entry
education inequality
compensating behaviour
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parental investment
age at school entry
education inequality
compensating behaviour
Berniell, María Inés
Estrada, Ricardo
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
parental investment
age at school entry
education inequality
compensating behaviour
description We study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage: age at school entry. First, we document that younger children in Spain perform significantly worse at school than their older peers and, key to causality, for children born in winter this effect is not due to seasonality. Furthermore, this effect is significantly greater among children from disadvantaged families. Then, we analyze data on parental investment and find that college-educated parents increase their time investment and choose better schools when their children are the youngest at school, while non-college-educated parents do not.
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author Berniell, María Inés
Estrada, Ricardo
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title Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
title_short Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
title_full Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
title_fullStr Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
title_full_unstemmed Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
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