The drivers of month-of-birth differences in children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills

• Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Vol. 177; no. 4; pp. 829 - 860
• Main Authors: Crawford, Claire, Dearden, Lorraine, Greaves, Ellen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2014; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Oxford University Press; BlackWell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Achievement tests; Age; Age at test; Age differences; Age of starting school; Birth; Birthdays; Children; Children & youth; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Data analysis; Education policy; Educational attainment; Month of birth; Non-cognitive skills; Original; Schooling; Skills; United Kingdom > UK; Non-cognitive skills; Month of birth; Age at test; Age of starting school

Previous research has found that children who are born later in the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than children who are born earlier in the year, especially at younger ages; much less is known about the mechanisms that drive this inequality. The paper uses two compleme...