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 … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian …

consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate. Policies of encouraging early school entry or increased …

pupils to drop out of high school earlier, which could adversely impact their employment; entering the workforce later also …-understood. Children's primary school entry ages vary worldwide, 2020 …There is a widely held belief that older students, by virtue of being more mature and readier to learn at school entry …

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood …. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the … German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …

This paper investigates intra-family spillovers from the focal child's timing of school start. We first show how school … starting age affects the timing of subsequent educational transitions. Exploiting quasi-random variation in school starting age … at school start increases maternal employment with four percentage points; at child age 15, it increases the likelihood …

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 …

disadvantaged backgrounds, and children spending the entire day at school; they do not depend on the choice of the reference group …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 …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … estimators. We use the natural population variation in the residential catchment areas and school openings and closures to …