The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger … classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school … of the long-term causal effects exploits state and year variation in school entry regulations. The results show that …

exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children …We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … low-performing children in nearly all countries studied. Compensatory investments increase over grade levels, suggesting …

Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes. Unlike much of the recent … delaying school entry by one year increases fifth grade test scores in Hebrew by 0.34 standard deviations and in math by 0 …

We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … the children who start school later. In contrast, for the children who commence school earlier, we do not find any … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

To study the long-term effects of school-starting-age rules in a setting with early ability tracking, we exploit the … of primary school than students born just before it. This translates into increased placement in high ability tracks in … not harm long-term outcomes of children who were, for exogenous reasons, placed in a lower track. …

share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …