“...Abstract We estimate the effects of relative age in kindergarten using data from an experiment where children of the same age were randomly assigned to...”

“...Educational interventions are often evaluated and compared on the basis of their impacts on test scores. Decades of research have produced two empirical...”

“...This paper examines how a large conditional grants program influenced school desegregation in the American South. Exploiting newly collected archival data and...”

“...In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for...”

“...Education researchers have long made inferences about grade retention from the grade distribution of same-aged students. Recent economics studies have followed...”