We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian … children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for …

Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries …

outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …