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 …

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 …

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 …

The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students …. All these structural breaks had influenced the ACT public school buildings as governance changes resulted in construction … of new school buildings with integration of concrete in the construction material and enactment of uniform building codes …

children who entered school in the late 1960s through the late 1970s, a time when delaying enrolment was common, we investigate …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 …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that … further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …