Quis JS, Reif S (2017)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Other publication type
Publication year: 2017
Series: FAU Discussion Papers No. 12-2017
A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using
changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education
is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this
discussion by analyzing the health effects of a reform in Germany where total years of
schooling for students in the academic track were reduced from nine to eight while keeping
cumulative teaching hours constant by increasing instruction intensity. e sequential
introduction of the reform allows us to implement a triple difference-in-differences estima-
tion strategy with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We nd that increased
weekly instruction time has negative health effects for females while they are still in school.
However, aer graduation, females even seem to beneffit from reduced school years. We find no effects on males’ healths.
APA:
Quis, J.S., & Reif, S. (2017). Health Effects of Instruction Intensity Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools.
MLA:
Quis, Johanna Sophie, and Simon Reif. Health Effects of Instruction Intensity Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools. 2017.
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