It's a decision that has been known to cause anxiety for parents with children whose birthdays are during the summer or early fall months. Do I enroll my child in kindergarten during the first year they qualify, making them one of the youngest in their class? Or do I wait a year when they would be one of the oldest?
A study at the University of British Columbia is getting some attention for the link researchers are making between children's birth months and their chances of becoming a successful CEO.
Researchers attributed the low number of company leaders in the S&P 500 with birth dates in June and July to the cutoff dates for school admissions. In other words, students with June and July birth dates tend to be among the youngest in their classes.
Of the 375 CEOs in the study, 23 percent were born in March and April combined. There were a combined 12 percent of CEOs with birthdays in June and July, despite more babies being born during those months.
Here is a link to a news story and a link to the actual study.
In full disclosure, I was born in July. However, I repeated kindergarten. No word yet on how this affects my chances of running a top publicly-traded company.
Loretta Kalb started her reporting career at The Sacramento Union, moved to KOVR-13 as a television reporter, editor and producer, headed to The Associated Press in San Francisco and eventually returned to Sacramento and joined The Sacramento Bee. Throughout her career, she has covered the state Legislature, courts, local government and, now, education. She is a Chico native and an Elk Grove resident.
Diana Lambert began her journalism career as a proofreader at the Lodi News-Sentinel. She is now a senior writer at The Sacramento Bee covering K-12 education and California State University, Sacramento. Previously she was The Bee’s Elk Grove bureau chief. Lambert was raised in a military family and lived at bases around the globe. She attended four high schools, graduating from Tokay High in Lodi and then Sacramento State University. She lives in Elk Grove.
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