This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools … - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5771 primary school students … with municipality-level information on all-day school investments. Facing the challenge of selection into all-day school …

This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …) and urban schools, and among girls. We also find that the benefits of longer school days accumulate over time. …

This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics … in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin remains virtually ignored in the literature surveying school attendance …