This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time …

unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost … reduced school costs combined with strongly non-linear returns to female education …

reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 … in more than 2,500 school districts, the extensions generated large exogenous variation in educational attainment at … different points in primary school while the overall school system and curricula remained unchanged. The reforms thus constitute …

variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are … correlated to changes in school quality, and school quality is an omitted variable, this identification strategy may fail. We …

determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection … states, we identify the reform effect on students' probability to graduate from high school. The results show that high …

candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …

raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a …