Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/157625 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 903
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative and sizeable effect on volunteering, both at the intensive and at the extensive margin. It also affects political interest. There is no similar crowding out of scholastic involvement, but no substitution either. We conclude that instructional time plays an important role in shaping student pro-social behaviour.
Subjects: 
Instructional Time
Student Pro-Social Behaviour
Volunteering
Scholastic Involvement
Political Interest
Quasi-Natural Experiment
"G8" Reform
SOEP
JEL: 
I21
I28
D01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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