Extremely proud to see this paper forthcoming in JOLE. Exploiting an educational reform that occurred in Germany in the 1960s, I show that exposure to less instructional time in the classroom leads to lower skills, worse educational attainment, and lower lifetime earnings👇
Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Forthcoming in JOLE: "Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years" by Kamila Cygan-Rehm
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