Does schedule irregularity affect productivity? Evidence from random assignment into college classes

Lester Lusher, Vasil Yasenov and Phuc Luong

Labour Economics, 2019, vol. 60, issue C, 115-128

Abstract: Workers with irregular or on-call work schedules constitute up to 17% of the workforce in the US. We identify the causal impact of schedule regularity on productivity by leveraging data from a Vietnamese university where freshmen were randomly assigned into highly-varying course schedules. Some schedules had consistent start times across the week, while others had extreme shifts in daily start times. Though we find a robust relationship between schedules and self-reported sleep, we precisely estimate no discernible differences in achievement across students with differing start time variability. Like prior studies, we find gains in achievement to delayed start times.

Keywords: School start time; Irregular schedules; Productivity; Education policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.06.004

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