The Benefits of Delayed Primary School Enrollment

By Patrick Mcewan, Joseph S. Shapiro. The Journal of human resources, 2012

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The Evolution of the School-Entry Age Effect in a School Tracking System (2010, background): “…set of countries suggests that later school entry raises test scores in elementary and secondary school or improves the quality of school attended (Allen and Barnsley 1993; Bedard and Dhuey 2006; Black, Devereux and Salvanes 2008; Fredriksson and Öckert 2006; McEwan and Shapiro 2008; Puhani 1.”
A Practical Guide to Regression Discontinuity (2012, methodology): “…estimate the impact of class size reduction (Angrist and Lavy, 1999), remedial education (Jacob and Lefgren, 2006), delayed entry to kindergarten (McEwan and Shapiro, 2008), and the impact of the Reading First program on instructional practice and student achievement (Gamse, Bloom, Kemple, and…”
Actual Age at School Entry, Educational Outcomes, and Earnings (2011, result): “Fredriksson and Ockert (2005) and McEwan and Shapiro (2008) obtained similar results for Sweden and Chile, respectively.”
Improving Learning in Primary Schools of Developing Countries (2015, background): “Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011) randomly assigned 500 schools to four treatment arms and a control group.”