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Lavy, Victor (2020) Expanding school resources and increasing time on task : effects on students’ academic and noncognitive outcomes. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18 (1). pp. 232-265. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvy054 ISSN 1542-4766.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy054
Abstract
This paper uses a natural experiment in Israel to assess the impact of school teaching resources and how it is used, ‘time-on-task’, on academic achievements and non-cognitive outcomes. It exploits variation induced by a change in the funding formula that reduced instructional resources funding for some schools and increased them for others. The results suggest that increased school resources and students' spending more time at school and on key tasks all lead to increased academic achievements with no behavioral costs. Separate estimations of the effect of increasing subject-specific instructional time per week also show positive and significant effects on math, science, and English test scores. However, there are no cross effects of additional instructional time across subjects. This evidence is robust to using different identification strategies. The evidence also shows that a longer school week increases the time that students spend on homework without reducing social and school satisfaction and without increasing school violence.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Economic Association | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4766 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 232-265 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvy054 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the European Economic Association following peer review. The version of record Victor Lavy, Expanding School Resources and Increasing Time on Task: Effects on Students’ Academic and Noncognitive Outcomes, Journal of the European Economic Association, , jvy054, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy054 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 October 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 February 2021 | ||||||||
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