The Effect of Child's School Entry on Maternal Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1075-1105
Author(s):  
Jaehee Choi ◽  
Haeil Jung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
School Entry

Age culture, school-entry cutoff, and the choices of birth month and school-entry timing in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-65
Author(s):  
Taehoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Birth Month ◽  
Entry Timing ◽  
One Year ◽  
Cutoff Date ◽  
Delayed School Entry

AbstractThis study explores how the distinctive Korean age reckoning, the Confucian age culture, and the school-entry-cutoff date affect the decisions of parents on both birth and school-entry timing for their children in Korea. There is a traditional method of age calculation in Korea that all people get one year older on January 1. Korea also has a distinctive age culture influenced by Confucianism. I find a substantial amount of birth and school-entry timing selections around the Korean age-cutoff date, January 1. The estimation results show that children born in January and February delayed school entry by 18.2–21.2 percentage points more than those born in November and December and 24% of births moved from one week before January 1 to one week after when the school-entry cutoff was March 1. After the school-entry cutoff has changed to January 1, children barely delay school enrollment, while more births are moved from December to January: 42% of births are shifted within the 7-day window. These behaviors are made by two motives: (1) parents want their children to have the same Korean age with their classmates because of the Confucian age culture; (2) they also want their children to be relatively older to have academic advantages.

Examining Politicians’ Wealth Accumulation in South Korea

Asian Survey ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-322
Author(s):  
Hoyong Jung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Support Fund ◽  
Minimal Evidence

One of the public’s popular beliefs about politics is that politicians engage in rent-seeking behaviors, such as accumulating property, using their political power. By applying a regression discontinuity design, this study examines whether members of the National Assembly of South Korea gained assets during three elective terms (2004–2008, 2008–2012, and 2012–2016). The results contradict the public’s claim. In general, there is minimal evidence that election winners accumulate more assets than runners-up. And observing the winners’ premium for newly elected politicians in the 2012–2016 term, I find that it is related to a political support fund, which is a legitimate channel for politicians’ funding. The results suggest that an information disclosure policy can play a pivotal role in restricting politicians’ rent-seeking behaviors.

scholarly journals Peer Effects and Scholastic Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Estimates Using the Age Sorting Criterion in the Composition of Classrooms

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Isabel Pessoa de Arruda Raposo ◽  
Sammara Cavalcanti Soares ◽  
Tatiane Almeida de Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Peer Effects ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Average Treatment Effect ◽  
Fuzzy Regression ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Local Average Treatment Effect ◽  
Information Set ◽  
Local Average ◽  
Identification Strategy

This paper evaluates the influence of the classmates’ age on individual academic achievement. The identification strategy explores a mechanism for the division of classes based on age homogeneity, with cutoff value determined by the Brazilian law of age at school entry. Fuzzy regression discontinuity estimates a local average treatment effect of 2.34 standard deviations favorable to students assigned to class with older peers, in comparison to those allocated to classes with younger classmates. The empirical estimations use a unique educational dataset originated from the Brazilian Ministry of Education, which provides a large information set related to the student’s scholar environment.

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