schools allocate weaker students to smaller classes and offer more remedial tutoring. Notably, parents provide more support to … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …

In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or … market performance. Using a rich data set for the entire Swedish population born 1935-84, we find that children who start … school at an older age do better in school and go on to have more education than their younger peers. Children from families …