The measurement of grit and other character skills in schools, most often using self-report
questionnaires, has grown in recent years. Very little is known about whether self-report …

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 …

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 …

Many disciplines of scholarship are interested in the Relative Age Effect (RAE), whereby age-
banding confers advantages on older members of the cohort over younger ones. Most …

Students born in the days before the school-entry cutoff date are one year younger at school
entry than their counterparts born in the days following the cutoff, which causes an …

In countries with a school-entry cutoff date, individuals born right after the cutoff are almost 1
year older than individuals in the same school cohort born right before that date. Abundant …

Previous studies have shown that educational expectations of individuals with high
socioeconomic status (SES) are relatively unaffected by low academic performance, a …

We investigate the long-lasting effects on behaviour of relative age at school. We conduct an
online incentivised survey with a sample of 1007 adults, who were born at most two months …

The timing of children's start to school is the interest of researchers, policy-makers and
especially parents. Researches on this issue have recently pointed to the concept of relative …

This study examines how past performance moderates the effect of the size of the prize on
tournament self-selection. We identify two types of trajectories that play simultaneous and …