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Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days

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  • Domínguez, Patricio
  • Ruffini, Krista

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This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood. This paper explores a large-scale reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010, with access to longer school days varying by cohort and city. Both sources of variation are leveraged and it is found that full-day schooling increases educational attainment, delays childbearing, and increases earnings in young adulthood. The nature of these benefits is consistent with more time in school facilitating human capital accumulation, and the results show that large scale investments in public education can generate long-term improvements in economic well-being.

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  • Domínguez, Patricio & Ruffini, Krista, 2020. "Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 10366, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:10366
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002416
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    1. Bovini, Giulia & Cattadori, Niccolò & De Philippis, Marta & Sestito, Paolo, 2023. "The Short and Medium Term Effects of Full-Day Schooling on Learning and Maternal Labor Supply," IZA Discussion Papers 16378, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Adrienne M. Lucas & Patrick J. McEwan & David Torres Irribarra, 2025. "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile," NBER Working Papers 33798, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Kamila Cygan-Rehm, 2022. "Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years," CESifo Working Paper Series 9892, CESifo.

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    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education

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