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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro author Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David author 2023-04-03 Most Spanish parents enrol their children in preschool education (ages 3–5)as a way of preparing them for compulsory education. However, not allparents decide to enrol their children in kindergarten (ages 0 to 2). In thiscontext, the aim of the present study is to analyse the influence of kinder-garten attendance on students’ academic performance in third and sixthgrades. In order to address this issue, we employ census and longitudinaldata from the Spanish region of the Canary Islands and an instrumentalvariable approach to go beyond simple correlation. Our results show thatkindergarten attendance improves students’ performance in around onestandard deviation in third grade, but that this influence is reduced andalmost disappears when reaching sixth grade, particularly in reading. López-Agudo, L. A., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2023). “The influence of kindergarten on students' performance: the Spanish case”. The Social Science Journal, in press. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39346 10.1080/03623319.2023.2194473 Educación - Modelos matemáticos Enseñanza preescolar Guarderías Lectura - Estudio y enseñanza Matemáticas - Estudio y enseñanza The influence of kindergarten on students’ performance: The Spanish case.