Arbeitspapier
Moving up a gear: The impact of compressing instructional time into fewer years of schooling
Policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. A fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total instructional time unchanged. Employing administrative data on all high school graduates in 2002-2013 in Germany, we exploit both temporal and regional variation in the implementation of the reform and study the overall effectiveness of this reform. We find that compressing the high school track by one year reduces the mean high school graduation age by about 10 months. The probability to repeat a grade level in the course of high school increases by 21 percent (3 percentage points), peaking in the final three years before graduation. However, the high school graduation rate is not affected. The results indicate the reform's success in reducing the graduation age, though it stays behind its potential benefits for labour markets and social security schemes because of higher grade repetition rates.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1450
Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education: Government Policy
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Education: Government Policy
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Thema
graduation age
grade repetition
grade retention
graduation rates
learning intensity
diff-in-diff
human capital
instructional time
grade repetition
grade retention
graduation rates
learning intensity
diff-in-diff
human capital
instructional time
Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Huebener, Mathias
Marcus, Jan
Marcus, Jan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Huebener, Mathias
- Marcus, Jan
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2015
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