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 … attainment. In this paper we document that for a large cohort of California and Texas natives the school entry laws increased …

Partly in response to increased testing and accountability, states and districts have been raising the minimum school …

eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are … effects in elementary school close the racial achievement gap in both subjects. We conclude by presenting four pieces of …

very similar in the 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better …

school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and …-pecuniary returns to schooling are at least as large as pecuniary ones. Ironically, one explanation why some early school leavers miss …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age … cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for similar age children with different years of school exposure. As is the case with … academic outcomes, school exposure is related to unobserved determinants of weight outcomes because some families choose to …

in the age of legal school entry intensify socioeconomic differences in educational attainment, since lower-income …%. The school attendance rate of six-year-olds has not decreased; rather, they are increasingly likely to be enrolled in … can be proximately explained by changes in school entry laws; the rest reflects "academic redshirting," the practice of …

for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

the variance in knowledge does indeed rise as children progress through school, but not enough for test score …