What differences a day can make: Quantile regression estimates of the distribution of daily learning gains

Michael S. Hayes and Seth Gershenson

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 141, issue C, 48-51

Abstract: Quantile regressions, which exploit quasi-random variation in days between kindergarten students’ fall and spring tests, show that the effect of school days on kindergarten students’ math and reading gains vary significantly, and monotonically, across the distribution of achievement gains.

Keywords: Education production function; School year length; Quantile regression; ECLS-K; Instructional time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.01.023

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