This paper explores how starting school at a younger age affects the developmental score
gaps between relatively advantaged and disadvantaged children. While previous findings …

Research has shown that early schooling may have an adverse impact on child
development in the short run. If there is such an impact, it may spill over onto mothers …

A school starting age policy may generate disparities in the age at which students enter
school, and in the relative age for grade among children born in similar periods. I analyze …

Mothers caring for an infant or toddler continue to face barriers in returning to work after child
birth. Mothers caring for an infant or toddler with a disability, however, may face even greater …

We analyse the effect of mandatory kindergarten attendance for four-year-old children on
maternal labour market outcomes in Switzerland. To determine the causal effect of this …

Early education programs have the potential to close student achievement gaps between
disadvantaged children and their relatively advantaged peers. In this chapter, we explore …

Whether rich in culture, steep in history, governed by policy, or based on research and
technology, around the globe there are pathways from home into the formal education …

The announcement of David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens as current Nobel
Prize winners in the field of economics, led to considerable and international media attention …

We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on maternal
labour supply in Switzerland by using two quasi-experiments: Firstly, we use a large …