Landersø, Rasmus; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of school starting age on crime while relying on variation in school starting age … seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in children's school starting age. Analyses are carried out using register …-based Danish data. We find that higher age at school start lowers the propensity to commit crime, but that this reduction is caused …