consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate. Policies of encouraging early school entry or increased …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the … school entry cut-off give birth at higher age, but total fertility and earnings are unaffected. Being born after the cut …

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 …

the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around New …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 …

, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …