In der Grundschulzeit erfolgen zentrale Weichenstellungen für die späteren Bildungswege junger Menschen in Deutschland …. Einerseits werden während dieser Zeit die grundlegenden Fähigkeiten im Lesen, Schreiben und Rechnen erworben und andererseits … empfiehlt ein Mindestmaß von 24 Deutschstunden. Darüber hinaus erfolgt an allen Grundschulen auch Unterricht in Sachkunde, einer …

carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment: between 2001 and 2007, the academic-track high school … (Gymnasium) was reduced by one year in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. To investigate … the variation in the curriculum taught to same-aged students at academic-track high school over time and across states to …

legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal … system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school … learning being a cumulative process by relying on rather poor proxies for instructional time. High school ninth graders from …-instructional time measured in cumulated form from first up to ninth grade. Besides total instructional time exposure, we identify eight …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity …-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine the causal impact of instruction time on student test scores, as measured by the … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity …-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine the causal impact of instruction time on student test scores, as measured by the … international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For … identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the …

, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the …

of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if … teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance related. If teachers value reputation, and if teaching output is …. Our estimates suggest that, despite the flat career profile of German teachers, the quality of teaching tends to be higher …

of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if … teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance related. If teachers value reputation, and if teaching output is …. Our estimates suggest that, despite the flat career profile of German teachers, the quality of teaching tends to be higher …