Landersø, Rasmus; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - 2015
This paper uses register-based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we … provide insights into the determinants of crime-age profiles. We exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in … Year. Our analysis speaks against a simple invariant crime-age profile as is popular in criminology: we find that higher …