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Minimum age requirements and the role of the school choice set

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorCáceres-Delpiano, Julio
dc.contributor.authorGiolito, Eugenio Pedro
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrid
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T16:50:47Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T16:50:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-01
dc.description.abstractUsing 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 municipality 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 municipalities 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. Second, for a subsample 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe gratefully acknowledge financial support from Fondecyt (Grant 1130565). Cáceres-Delpiano gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Grant ECO2019-00419-001), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MDM 2014-0431) and the Comunidad de Madrid, SPAIN (Grant CAM-EPUC3M11). We thank MINEDUC, DEMRE and Agencia de Calidad de la Educación (Chile) for the access to the data used in this paper.en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationCáceres-Delpiano, J., & Giolito, E. (2023). Minimum age requirements and the role of the school choice set. SERIEs, 14 (1), pp. 63-103.es
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-022-00267-7
dc.identifier.issn1869-4187
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage63es
dc.identifier.publicationissue1es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage103es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleSeries-Journal of the Spanish Economic Associationen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume14es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/38474
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000032926
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherSpringeres
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. MDM 2014-0431es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2019-00419-001es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. EPUC3M11es
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022es
dc.rightsAtribución 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.jelA21
dc.subject.jelI24
dc.subject.jelI25
dc.subject.jelI28
dc.subject.otherLatin Americaen
dc.subject.otherChilees
dc.subject.otherSchool choice seten
dc.subject.otherSchool achievementsen
dc.titleMinimum age requirements and the role of the school choice seten
dc.typeresearch article*
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