We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational outcomes using two different
data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of …

In Sweden, children typically start compulsary school the year they turn seven. Individuals
born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school …

How much do returns to education differ across different natural experiment methods? To
test this, we estimate the rate of return to schooling in Australia using two different …

Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in
education policy. In particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers …

The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age from 15 to 16 has been used to identify returns
to years' schooling. However, because the first set of “high stakes” exams are taken in the …

We consider the identification and estimation of the average wage return to attaining
educational qualifications when attainment is potentially measured with error. By exploiting …

We revisit the question of what is the rate of return to education in Great Britain. We make
two contributions. Firstly, we re-assess the robustness of Harmon and Walker (1995) …

This report carefully describes changes in compulsory schooling over the XXth century in 14
European countries, namely Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece …

We study the impact of misreported treatment status on the estimation of causal treatment
effects, focusing on applications where no additional information or repeated measurements …

Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Page 1 Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men
Outside the Labour Force Staff Working Paper Ralph Lattimore The views expressed in this paper …