Long-term gains from longer school days

Arbeitspapier

This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood. This paper explores a large-scale reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010, with access to longer school days varying by cohort and city. Both sources of variation are leveraged and it is found that full-day schooling increases educational attainment, delays childbearing, and increases earnings in young adulthood. The nature of these benefits is consistent with more time in school facilitating human capital accumulation, and the results show that large scale investments in public education can generate long-term improvements in economic well-being.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IDB Working Paper Series ; No. IDB-WP-1120

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Returns to Education ; Education and Economic Development ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; National Government Expenditures and Education
• Thema: Economics of education ; returns to education ; full-day schooling ; long-term investments

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Domínguez, Patricio ; Ruffini, Krista
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• (wo): Washington, DC
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.18235/0002416
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/234699
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ