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 …

-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 …

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 …

-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 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 …

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 …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the … German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …