We are largely able to rule out education and labor market outcomes as significant channels for this finding. Building from the previous studies that have found conflicting evidence on the effect of school starting age on educational attainment and labor market outcomes in the United States, we ...
reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example)....
In Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), children born between January and July have the choice to start school in the year they turn five, or delay entry until the year they turn six. We used linked administrative data for children who started school in NSW in 2009 or...
Some students choose to work or travel after leaving school and before going to university. Many people, however, say that working experience is more useful in adult life than travel. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples ...
Importantly, there is variation in the mapping between year and month of birth and the year the test is taken, allowing us to distinguish the effects of school startingage from pure age effects. We find evidence for a small positive effect of starting school younger on IQ scores measured at...
Books for children aged between six and nine years old generated the most revenue in the children's and youth book category in Sweden in 2023, bringing in over 221 million Swedish kronor that year.
Profiling epigenetic age in single cells Article09 December 2021 Main Aging is associated with multiple cellular changes that are often tissue specific1. Cytosine methylation, however, stands out, as it allows for the development of pan-tissue aging clocks (multivariate age estimators) that are appli...
Starting at a new schoolBy Anna Gray, age 11I've just finished my first week at a new school and I'd like to tell you about it. Like other children in my country, I went to primary school until I was eleven and then I had to go to a different school for older children. I ...
He dropped out of school early but later he decided that he had to gain his GED. His mother didn’t want to tolerate his misbehaviour and the abuse of drugs so she confronted him when he was 17. They argued for hours but ended it very emotionally after which Joe decided to get a reh...
The curriculum was "a closed book" for a child who starts secondary school with a reading age of a seven-year-old, he said.He said __14__ in some parts of the country had proved that it was __15__ for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve level four. These headteachers ...