Double-shift schooling and student success: Quasi-experimental evidence from Europe

Lester Lusher and Vasil Yasenov

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 139, issue C, 36-39

Abstract: School scheduling systems are frequently at the forefront of policy discussions around the world. This paper provides the first causal evidence of student performance during double-shift schooling systems. We exploit a six-year quasi-experiment from a country in Eastern Europe where students alternated between morning and afternoon school blocks every month. We estimate models with student–class and month fixed effects using data on over 260,000 assignment-level grades. We find a small, precisely estimated drop in student performance during afternoon blocks.

Keywords: Double-shift schooling; Education production; Education policy; School start time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I20 I21 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.12.009

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