personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … the children who start school later. In contrast, for the children who commence school earlier, we do not find any …-term nature. We hypothesise that an early school start achieves this by lessening the importance of resource-access inequalities …

predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future …. However, low incomes and the obligation to meet immediate needs may forestall such investment. Studies suggest that school …