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ABSTRACT
School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that early enrolment increases the number of children by 0.1 (which is significant at the 10%-level), whereas we find no significant impact on rates of childlessness.
Acknowledgements
This article uses data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS): Starting Cohort Adults, doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC6:8.0.0. From 2008 to 2013, NEPS data was collected as part of the Framework Program for the Promotion of Empirical Educational Research funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). As of 2014, NEPS is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) at the University of Bamberg in cooperation with a nationwide network. Mikrozensus survey years 2008, 2012 and 2016 were provided by the RDC of the Federal Statistical Office and Statistical Offices of the Länder. Marcus Tamm acknowledges financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TA 829/4-1). The funding source did not play any role in the analysis or publication.
Disclosure statement
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Notes
1 East Germany (including Berlin) is dropped from the analysis because during the time those women were in school, the East and West German schooling systems differed considerably. Also, the East German cut-off dates for school entry did not differ between regions and over time and early enrolment was generally not allowed.