Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141556 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9797
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine the causal impact of instruction time on student test scores, as measured by the international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time needed to learn. This difference is supported by our findings that the effectiveness of instructional time varies substantially between different school (ability) tracks and that additional instruction time significantly increases the within-school variance of subject-specific test scores.
Subjects: 
instruction time
PISA
fixed-effect models
tracking
JEL: 
C21
I21
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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