Are we spending too many years in school

Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration

During the last decade, most of the German states have abolished the final year of higher secondary schooling while keeping academic content almost unaltered. We evaluate the effects of the reform in Saxony-Anhalt for the double cohort of graduates in 2007. In 2003, the 13th year of schooling was el...

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Volume:	16
Main Author:	Büttner, Bettina Thomsen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN De Gruyter 2015 WILEY Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	German economic review (Oxford) Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 65 - 86
ORCID:	0000-0002-9677-9199
Data of publication:	2015
ISSN:	1465-6485 1468-0475
EISSN:	1468-0475
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Bildungsreform Studienmotivation Abitur Bildungspolitik Dauer Gymnasium Quote Schulerfolg Studienanfänger Geschlechtsspezifik Sachsen-Anhalt Auswirkung Schulleistung Student performance educational choice natural experiment schooling quality learning intensity Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Student performance educational choice TIME natural experiment schooling quality learning intensity
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