Fig. 6
Age of first-time college candidates. This figure shows the relationship between the birthday and the age at which candidates apply for college for the first time. The center of the graphs is zero, which represents January 1. The first graph shows the relationship for boys and the second for girls. Data come from applications for undergraduate programs at UFPE from 2002 to 2005. The sample is restricted to those who graduated from high school in the same year and were under 18.5 years old. Functions are estimated using a triangular kernel with the bandwidth selection procedure proposed by Calonico et al. (2014). Ï„ is the RD estimate, with robust standard errors in parentheses