Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265823 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15602
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the effects of extending the school day during elementary school on students' education outcomes later in life. We do so in the context of Mexico City's metropolitan area, where a large-scale program introduced in 2007 extended the school day from 4.5 to 8 hours in schools that adopted the program. We exploit cohort-by-cohort variation in students' full-time school enrollment during elementary school to identify the longer-term effects on their performance in a high-school admission exam, subsequent placement, and preferences over high schools. The results indicate that full-time schools have positive and long-lasting effects on students' performance, increasing high-stakes test scores by 4.9 percent of a standard deviation. Exposure to full-time schooling also increases students' probability of choosing highly-selective high schools as their top choices, especially among students from low-SES schools.
Subjects: 
full-time schools
high-stakes exams
education
Mexico
JEL: 
I21
I25
J01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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