This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … the school starting age imply that those who start school at the age of seven do better on competency tests than those … children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by … applicants with different ages at school entry depending on whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, our estimates …

Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …-cohort variation in the age composition of different school cohorts, and through an IV strategy based on the discontinuity in the …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … analyze whether the initial assignment to different school tracks has persistent effects on educational attainment and … earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing …' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the … normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after the establishment were more likely to finish compulsory schooling …