Does instructional time at school influence study time at university? Evidence from an instructional time reform
| dc.contributor.author | Schwerter, Jakob | |
| dc.contributor.author | Netz, Nicolai | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hübner, Nicolas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-02T13:01:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-02T13:01:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-05-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Early-life environments can have long-lasting effects on individuals’ later life courses. Interestingly, research on the effects of school reforms has hardly adopted this perspective. Therefore, we investigate a staggered school reform that reduced the number of school years and increased weekly instructional time for secondary school students in most German federal states. We analyze this quasi-experiment in a difference-in-differences framework using nationally representative large-scale survey data on 69,513 students who attended university between 1998 and 2016. Using both TWFE and weighted-group ATT estimators, we find negative effects of reform exposure on hours spent attending classes and on self-study. Moreover, reform exposure increased the time gap between school completion and higher education entry. Our results support the view that research should examine unintended long-term effects of school reforms on individual life courses. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/44702 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Economics of education review; 100 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | G8 high school reform | en |
| dc.subject | Higher education | en |
| dc.subject | Study time | en |
| dc.subject | Long-term effect | en |
| dc.subject | Staggered difference-in-differences | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | 370 | |
| dc.subject.rswk | Schulreform | |
| dc.subject.rswk | Bildungspolitik | |
| dc.subject.rswk | Hochschule | |
| dc.subject.rswk | Sekundarstufe | |
| dc.title | Does instructional time at school influence study time at university? Evidence from an instructional time reform | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.publicationtype | Article | |
| dcterms.accessRights | open access | |
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| eldorado.doi.register | false | |
| eldorado.secondarypublication | true | |
| eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitation | Jakob Schwerter, Nicolai Netz, Nicolas Hübner, Does instructional time at school influence study time at university? Evidence from an instructional time reform, Economics of Education Review, Volume 100, 2024, 102526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102526 | |
| eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102526 |