I use unique child-level panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, four developing
countries with widely differing levels of student achievement, to study the extent to which …

This paper provides a review of methodological advancements in the evaluation of
heterogeneous treatment effect models based on instrumental variable (IV) methods. We …

This article uses register‐based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on
crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime‐age profiles. We …

Randomisation inference (RI) is typically interpreted as testing Fisher's 'sharp'null
hypothesis that all unit-level effects are exactly zero. This hypothesis is often criticised as …

Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes.
Unlike much of the recent literature, our unique identification strategy separates the SEA …

Kindergarten redshirting may affect a child's own outcomes and also has implications for
school administration, classroom management, and peer learning. We use statewide micro …

This paper investigates intrafamily spillovers from the focal child's timing of school start. We
first show how school starting age affects the timing of subsequent educational transitions …

Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment randomly assigned housing vouchers
that could be used in low-poverty neighborhoods. Consistent with the literature, I find that …

This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the
Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a …

This paper studies causal effects informative for deciding the age when children should start
kindergarten. I present evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten …