[三农学术推文28] 农村小学延迟入学对孩子教育的影响

Qihui Chen. Ready for school? Impacts of delayed primary school enrollment on children's educational outcomes in rural China[J]. International Journal of Educational Development

Highlights

•We estimate causal impacts of school enrollment age on child educational outcomes.

•Identification exploits the jump in enrollment age around the enrollment cut-off.

•Delayed enrollment increases the incidence of first-grade retention for boys.

•Delayed enrollment reduces the incidence of middle school enrollment for boys.

•No statistically significant delayed enrolment effects are found for girls.

Abstract

This paper estimates the causal impacts of delayed primary school enrollmen on children's educational outcomes in rural China. Instrumental variable estimates exploiting the discontinuity in children's enrollment age around the enrollment cut-off date indicate that a one-year delay in school enrollment increases the incidence of first-grade retention by approximately 10 percentage points for boys and reduces the probabilities of middle school enrollment by 6 percentage points for both boys and girls. These results suggest that delayed enrollment, even if it may be an optimal choice made by poor parents in response to financial constraints, is likely to be harmful to children's educational development in rural China.

Keywords

School enrollment age; Educational outcomes; Rural China; Gender gap

原文链接：http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.09.007

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