STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech and Alicia Adsera
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Revista de Economia Aplicada, 2012, vol. 20, issue 2, 135-164

Abstract: This paper studies the association between children’s cognitive and non - cognitive development with socioeconomic factors, and school characteristics in Catalonia. The focus of the analysis is on the relevance of the quarter of birth and the school entrance age. The data, collected in 2005, covers children attending 2nd, 4th and 6th grade in a random sample of 191 schools. We find that children born late in the year, close to the December 31st cutoff date, display lower academic performance than those born in the first two quarters, but no difference in social behavior appears by quarter of birth. The matu rity gap does not seem to disappear as children advance into later grades. Children who attended nursery school generally do better than those who started school either at preschool (around 3 years old) or later. This relationship weakens when origin and family education controls are included in the analysis. Among other demographic characteristics, children raised in non-nuclear families, with ow educated parents, with little exposure to after school activities or born outside Spain tend to underperform others at school.

Keywords: educational economics; quarter of birth; school performance; family; use of time; entrance age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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