Age based school entry laws force parents and educators to consider an important tradeoff: Though students who are the … youngest in their school cohort typically have poorer academic performance, on average, they have slightly higher educational … attainment. In this paper we document that for a large cohort of California and Texas natives the school entry laws increased …

Age based school entry laws force parents and educators to consider an important tradeoff: Though students who are the … youngest in their school cohort typically have poorer academic performance, on average, they have slightly higher educational … attainment. In this paper we document that for a large cohort of California and Texas natives the school entry laws increased …

variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age …

variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age …

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We … provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in … reform reduced the school starting age from seven to six, the second changed the first-year curriculum from a play …