- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …

This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …

This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …

- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …