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 …-based Danish data. We find that higher age at school start lowers the propensity to commit crime, but that this reduction is caused … unaffected by being old-for-grade in school. -- old-for-grade ; school start ; criminal charges ; violence ; property crime …