Minimum Age Requirements and the role of the School Choice Set

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

No 830, CEMA Working Papers: Serie Documentos de Trabajo. from Universidad del CEMA

Abstract: Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of the size of the school choice set at the time of starting primary school. With that purpose, we exploit multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, which not only define when a student can start elementary school, but also the set of schools from which she/he can choose. Moreover, differences across municipalities in the composition of the schools according to these cutoffs, allow us not only to account for munic- ipality fixed factors (educational markets) but also for differences in the characteristics between schools choosing different deadlines. That is, we compare the difference in outcomes for children living in the same municipality around the different cutoffs with those for children in other mu- nicipalities that experience a different change in the available set of schools across cutoffs (double difference in RD). We show that a larger set of schools increases the probability of starting in a better school, measured by a non-high-stakes examination. Moreover, this quasi-experimental variation reveals an important reduction in the likelihood of dropping out and a reduction in the probability that a child would switch schools during her/his school life. Secondly, for a subsam- ple of students who have completed high school, we observe that a larger school choice set at the start of primary school increases students’ chances of taking the national examination required for higher education and the likelihood of being enrolled in college.

Keywords: LatinAmerica; Chile; School choice set; School achievements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A21 I24 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2022-04
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Journal Article: Minimum age requirements and the role of the school choice set (2023)
Working Paper: Minimum Age Requirements and the Role of the School Choice Set (2018)
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