In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning … disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children in Spain perform … significantly worse at school than their older peers and – key to causal interpretation – that for children born in winter this …

The article considers how liberal democracies and their courts should address disputes about children's education when … parents, children, and the state's interests with respect to public education. Given the legitimacy of claims by the community … how their own children should be educated; the need for children to develop the autonomy that liberalism demands; and the …