Suburban legend: School cutoff dates and the timing of births

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 826-841

  Dickert Conlin, Stacy ^a   Elder, Todd ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth timing; Kindergarten cutoff; Regression discontinuity

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE; BIRTH RATE; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SUBURBAN AREA;

EID: 77955429100     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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