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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years

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dc.creator Pischke, Jörn-Steffen
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:45Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:45Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20115
dc.identifier ppn:371068843
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20115
dc.description This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years led indeed to shorter schooling for affected students. Using comparisons across cohorts, states, and secondary school tracks, I find that the short school years increased grade repetition in primary school, but had no adverse effect on the number of students attending the highest secondary school track or earnings later in life.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 874
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J31
dc.subject J24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject human capital
dc.subject returns to schooling
dc.subject length of school year
dc.subject term length
dc.subject grade repetition
dc.subject tracking
dc.subject Schule
dc.subject Unterricht
dc.subject Dauer
dc.subject Bildungsertrag
dc.subject Bildungsverhalten
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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