This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

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 …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …

school children, we document that in university the youngest students perform better compared to their oldest peers … University. The identification exploits school entry cut-off ages that generate up to 11 months difference between the youngest …

use high school GPA as a predetermined measure of student ability and idiosyncratic variation in peer composition across … peers' high school GPA reduces the probability of dropping out by 4.6 percentage points. This number masks considerable …

graduation by a whole year. These internships, in addition to facilitating the transition from school to work, are expected to …

-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school …