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 …

study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … grade as was previously the case. The reform provides a situation where the age at which children receive their first grade … year earlier grades are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety by the end of compulsory school, controlling …

better nutritional intake at school and at home. Gains in beneciary children's cognitive development were observed 4 years …This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …

-for-age, due to better nutritional intake at school and at home. Gains in beneficiary children's cognitive development were …This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …

-for-age, due to better nutritional intake at school and at home. Gains in beneficiary children's cognitive development were …This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers' health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers' health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact … matching to control for potential endogeneity between parental health and children's school outcomes and employ cancer specific … have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health …

The link between malnutrition and poor health among elementary school children and absenteeism, early dropout and poor … classroom performance as well as the effectiveness of school-based nutrition and health interventions in improving school … transfer programs since 1997. Its current program, the School-Based Feeding Program, as implemented in school year (SY) 2013 …

which involved raising the minimum school leaving age (RoSLA). MR exploits perturbations of germline genetic variation …