Redshirting, compulsory schooling laws, and educational attainment

Dionissi Aliprantis

No 1012, Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: A wide literature uses date of birth as an instrument to study the causal effects of educational attainment. This paper shows how parents delaying their children?s initial enrollment in kindergarten, a practice known as redshirting, can make estimates obtained through this identification framework all but impossible to interpret. A latent index model is used to illustrate how the monotonicity assumption in this framework is violated if redshirting decisions are made in a setting of essential heterogeneity. Empirical evidence is presented from the ECLS-K data set that favors this scenario; redshirting is common and heterogeneity in the treatment effect of educational attainment is likely a factor in parents? redshirting decisions.

Keywords: Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-201012

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