Partly in response to increased testing and accountability, states and districts have been raising the minimum school … no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school …This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until … a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school …

, we find no evidence that the age at which children enter school effects job market outcomes, such as wages or the …Age based school entry laws force parents and educators to consider an important tradeoff: Though students who are the … youngest in their school cohort typically have poorer academic performance, on average, they have slightly higher educational …

Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence … of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to … examine the role of school starting age on longer-run outcomes such as IQ scores at age 18, educational attainment, teenage …

public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were …

We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were … expected kindergarten entry age to account for negative selection of older school entrants, we find that exposure to more … popular discussion of school entry age - being old relative to one's peers is not beneficial …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …