Introduction it was like a science fiction movie. While I was on another phone I saw Erin, who
was a few thousand miles away, enter my daughter Elena's smartphone and move around …

The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted
on the belief that success is mainly due, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as …

We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's
cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and …

Previous research has found that children who are born later in the academic year have
lower educational attainment, on average, than children who are born earlier in the year …

We examine whether a male CEO's facial masculinity, measured by facial width‐to‐height
ratio (fWHR), predicts the riskiness of his firm. Using the face pictures of 1,162 CEOs in the …

Many US states have a single cutoff date for school entry, meaning that some children are
older than others when they begin kindergarten. We show that this variation in birth months …

Background Within the same school class, it is usual to find children who differ in age by
almost a full calendar year. Although associations between being relatively young and poor …

Since the 1980s, research on relative age effects (RAEs) consistently shows that relatively
older individuals are advantaged in sport and other contexts. With the recent proliferation of …

All around the world, school-entry cohorts are organized on an annual calendar so that the
age of students in the same cohort differs by up to one year. It is a well-established finding …

Few studies have investigated whether relative age effects (RAE s) exist in school sport.
None have sought to test the competing maturational and social‐agent hypotheses …