School Starting Age and The Crime‐Age Profile
利用丹麦登记数据，研究发现入学年龄越大，青少年犯罪倾向越低，且对男孩的犯罪数量有影响，挑战了犯罪学中犯罪年龄曲线不变的假设。
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 exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in school starting age for children born around new year. Our analysis speaks against a simple invariant crime-age profile as is popular in criminology: we find that higher school starting age lowers the propensity to commit crime at young ages. We also find effects on the number of crimes committed for boys.