Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Philipp Bauer () and Regina T. Riphahn ()
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Regina T. Riphahn: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

No 4466, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment significantly increases educational mobility.

Keywords: Kindergarten; pre-school enrollment; educational mobility; intergenerational transmission of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 I21 J24 D30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-10

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