scholarly journals Are the data on delayed school entry compelling enough to change policy … or even pediatrician recommendations?

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 596-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip S Fastenau
Keyword(s):  
School Entry ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Delayed School Entry

scholarly journals Delayed school entry and academic performance: a natural experiment

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 652-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Jaekel ◽  
Vicky Yu-Chun Strauss ◽  
Samantha Johnson ◽  
Camilla Gilmore ◽  
Dieter Wolke
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Delayed School Entry

A Preliminary Study of Bully and Victim Behavior in Old-for-Grade Students: Another Potential Hidden Cost of Grade Retention or Delayed School Entry

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Crothers ◽  
James B. Schreiber ◽  
Ara J. Schmitt ◽  
G. Ronald Bell ◽  
Jessica Blasik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Grade Retention ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Hidden Cost ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Delayed 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.

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