Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 578-599
Using data for 9, 13 and 15-year-old students from three different datasets (PIRLS-2006, TIMSS-2007 and PISA-2009), we investigate whether the age at school entry affects children school performance at the fourth, eighth and tenth grade levels. Since student's age in a grade may be endogenous,...