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The Benefits of Delayed Primary School Enrollment

Discontinuity Estimates Using Exact Birth Dates

Patrick J. McEwan and Joseph S. Shapiro
Journal of Human Resources, January 2008, 43 (1) 1-29; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.43.1.1
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