-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around New …This paper uses register-based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we … provide insights into the determinants of crime-age profiles. We exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in …

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

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission. We do so by exploiting a number … different ages at school entry depending on whether they are born on December 31st or on January 1st, our estimates show that … further suggest that the difference in the likelihood of admission is driven by candidates’ learning ability at primary school …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …

, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school … robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years …We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany …

The study estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance for Hungarian grade four students using …). The study uses the control function approach, exploiting the exogenous variation in school starting age driven by the … children's month of birth and the cut-off date regulation for enrolment. The results indicate a positive age effect on Reading …

children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of … Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of …