In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning …-educated parents increase their time investment and choose schools with better inputs when their children are the youngest at school … significantly worse at school than their older peers and – key to causal interpretation – that for children born in winter this …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …

exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children …We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …