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 …

market for school leaders. We show that pension borders greatly affect leadership flows across schools – for two groups of …

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 …

discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover …

Does deferring school entry for children born just before the enrollment cutoff date improve their mental well …) in England. Higher ADHD rates among early school starters are often attributed to a peer-comparison bias caused by … recommendations include sorting children by age and refining diagnostic decision-making in early primary school. …