Birthday effect


Yuret T.

APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS, cilt.25, sa.13, ss.914-917, 2018 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1383592
  • Dergi Adı: APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.914-917
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

According to the Turkish legal code, a student born in December must enrol in primary school alongside students born 11months earlier in January. In this study, Turkish college admissions data is used to measure the effect of younger enrolment in primary school. It was found that students who are born in the second half of the year are less likely to be from selective public high schools, and are less likely to be successful in college admissions test. These results are consistent with disadvantages associated with younger enrolment in primary school.