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Chapter 3. Primary School Skill Development: from First to Sixth Grade (Continued from previous page) (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Observations 31,830 31,830 31,830 31,808 27,155 R-squared .170 .181 .300 .330 .266 Panel III: Math SKILLG1 .566*** .529*** .552*** .535*** .506*** (.005) (.005) (.005) (.005) (.005) Parental education (Middle=ref.) Low-educated -.053*** -.071** -.068*** -.046*** (.021) (.020) (.020) (.022) High-educated .366*** .310*** .278*** .269*** (.012) (.012) (.012) (.012) Schooling School FE NO NO YES YES NO School performance .532*** (.012) Student characteristics NO NO NO YES YES Observations 31,830 31,830 31,830 31,808 27,155 R-squared .320 .347 .445 .469 .424 Note. SKILLG1 andSKILLG6 refer to the standardized skill scores in grades one and six, respectively. The dummy for the missing category of parental education is excluded from the table. Additional unreported student characteristics include age, sex, migration background, household type, and family size. We also include a control for grade retention, a covid dummy, and year FE. The constant is not reported in the table but is included in the model. Robust standard errors are displayed in parentheses. *** p< .01, ** p< .05, * p< .1. 62

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