Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/334630 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 12274
Publisher: 
Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper replicates and extends the evidence on the lifetime effects of school starting age on earnings by Fredriksson and Öckert (2014) for Sweden. Using German data for individuals born between 1945 and 1965, we examine a more rigid system of ability tracking in secondary education, a potential driver of long-term effects. We confirm negligible effects of later school entry for men and positive effects for women. These gender differences arise despite similar effects on educational attainment. By unfolding the gender gaps over the lifecycle, assessing fertility decisions, and maternal employment around the first birth, we show that childbirth postponement and increased labor market attachment after the first birth seem to be plausible mechanisms.
Subjects: 
school starting age
lifetime effects
education
gender gap
JEL: 
I21
I24
I26
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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