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 …

, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum. The loss of classroom instruction was mainly compensated for by …

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 …

, 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 …

, 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 …

, 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 …

. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … capture that with free parental choice, overambitious parents tend to select too demanding tracks for their children. …

-service cognitive and pedagogical skills as measured by two state examinations and the high-school GPA on later effectiveness. I apply …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …