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

Inés Berniell and Ricardo Estrada

CEDLAS, Working Papers from CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Abstract: In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children in Spain perform significantly worse at school than their older peers and – key to causal interpretation – that for children born in winter this effect is not due to birth seasonality. Furthermore, the age of school entry effect is significantly greater among children from disadvantaged families. To understand why, we analyze detailed data on parental investment and find that college-educated parents increase their time investment and choose schools with better inputs when their children are the youngest at school entry, while non-college-educated parents do not.

JEL-codes: D10 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2017-12
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Journal Article: Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage (2020)
Working Paper: Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage (2017)
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