In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or … school at an older age do better in school and go on to have more education than their younger peers. Children from families … just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school at different ages. We exploit this source of …

, 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 …

, 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 …

In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or … school at an older age do better in school and go on to have more education than their younger peers. Children from families … just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school at different ages. We exploit this source of …

teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …

mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects …

This study provides a policy evaluation of laws allowing early school enrollment of children, i.e., enrollment before … employment. While the school starting age is usually determined by children's date of birth and legal cutoffs, some German states … the official school starting age. It investigates the effects of early enrollment on educational attainment, wages and …

. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our …In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies … capture that with free parental choice, overambitious parents tend to select too demanding tracks for their children. …

books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …