Left behind by birth month

Ingeborg Solli ()
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Ingeborg Solli: University of Stavanger, Postal: University of Stavanger, NO-4036 Stavanger, Norway

No 2012/8, UiS Working Papers in Economics and Finance from University of Stavanger

Abstract: Utilizing comprehensive administrative from Norway I investigate birth month effects on school performance at age 16, educational achievement at age 19 and 25 and earnings at age 30. I demonstrate that the oldest children in class have a substantially higher 10th grade GPA than their younger peers. The birth month differences are similar across gender, but stronger for less advantaged children. The birth month effects are robust to controlling for sibling fixed effects. On longer term outcomes, I find that the youngest children in class have a significantly lower probability of having completed high school at age 19, are less likely to enroll into college by age 25, and have substantially lower earnings at age 30. The effects on educational achievement and earnings are more pronounced for boys and for less advantaged children.

Keywords: Birth date effect; Relative age effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J10 J20 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2012-04-11
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