Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child …'s probability of developing special educational needs in early grades. We find that starting school at a relatively older age …

2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers leaving for other …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most academic secondary school track, and that (ii) primary school teachers give … results imply that controlling for social skills would significantly reduce estimates of the height-school premium. With …

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first … enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of … children of better educated parents …

evidence this could be due to the unobservables not controlled for by this procedure. A school fixed effects equation of …

We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student … achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school … consolidation and up to four years after. We find that school consolidation has adverse effects on achievement in the short run and …