1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003567129707536

Autore

Sachs, Hans

Titolo

Fastnachtspiele / Hans Sachs ; ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Theo Schumacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 1970

ISBN

3484190140

Edizione

[2. neubearb. Aufl.]

Descrizione fisica

XXXVI, 164 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Deutsche texte ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

Schumacher, Theo

Disciplina

831.4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146290803321

Autore

Youngblood Sandra Black

Titolo

Too Young to Leave the Nest : The Effects of School Starting Age / / Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w13969

Classificazione

I2

J1

J3

Altri autori (Persone)

DevereuxPaul J

SalvanesKjell G

Soggetti

Education and Research Institutions

Demographic Economics

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

April 2008.

Sommario/riassunto

Does it matter when a child starts school?  While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to examine the role of school starting age on longer-run outcomes such as IQ scores at age 18, educational attainment, teenage pregnancy, and earnings.  Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around age 18.  Importantly, there is variation in the mapping between year and month of birth and the year the test is taken, allowing us to distinguish the effects of school starting age from pure age effects.  We find evidence for a small positive effect of starting school younger on IQ scores measured at age 18.  In contrast, we find evidence of much larger positive effects of age at test, and these results are very robust.  We also find that starting school younger has a significant positive effect on the probability of teenage pregnancy, but has little effect on



educational attainment of boys or girls.  There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has essentially disappeared by age 30.  This pattern is consistent with the idea that starting school later reduces potential labor market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age.