Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185267 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11807
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test scores and has been used to identify modest positive causal effects for instruction hours in certain grades. We exploit administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as large as when using 9th grade time only. Effects are largest for low SES households and for boys with non-western immigrant background, especially in the early grades.
Subjects: 
school resources
test scores
time in education
JEL: 
C21
I2
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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