Arbeitspapier

Sleep and Student Success: The Role of Regularity vs. Duration

Recent correlational studies and media reports have suggested that sleep regularity – the variation in the amount of sleep one gets across days – is a stronger determinant of student success than sleep duration – the total amount of sleep one receives. We identify the causal impacts of sleep regularity and sleep duration on student success by leveraging over 165,000 student-classroom observations from a large university in Vietnam where incoming freshmen were randomly assigned into course schedules. These schedules varied significantly: some had the same daily start time across the week, while others experienced extreme shifts. Across a multitude of specifications and samples, we precisely estimate no discernible differences in achievement between students with highly varying start times versus students with consistent schedules. Moreover, we find much smaller gains to delayed school start times compared to previous studies.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11079

Classification
Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Analysis of Education
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Subject
school start time
sleep regularity
education policy

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Luong, Phuc
Lusher, Lester
Yasenov, Vasil
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2017

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Luong, Phuc
  • Lusher, Lester
  • Yasenov, Vasil
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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