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 …