Are we spending too many years in school. Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration.

Autor/in	Büttner, Bettina Thomsen
Titel	Are we spending too many years in school. Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Verbringen wir zu viele Jahre in der Schule? Kausale Erkenntnisse über den Einfluss einer Schulzeitverkürzung im Sekundarbereich.
Quelle	In: German economic review, 16 (2015) 1, S. 65-86 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1465-6485; 1468-0475
DOI	10.1111/geer.12038
Schlagwörter	Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Gymnasium; Abitur; Schulerfolg; Schulleistung; Studienmotivation; Dauer; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Quote; Studienanfänger; Sachsen-Anhalt
Abstract	During the last decade, most of the German states have abolished the final year of higher secondary schooling while keeping academic content almost unaltered. We evaluate the effects of the reform in Saxony-Anhalt for the double cohort of graduates in 2007. In 2003, the 13th year of schooling was eliminated for students in grade 9, while tenth grade students were unaffected. This provides a natural experiment for analyzing the impact on schooling achievements and educational choice. We find negative effects on grades in mathematics, but no effects in German literature. Moreover, a significant share of females were found to delay university enrollment. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/3