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Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days

View ORCID ProfilePatricio Dominguez and View ORCID ProfileKrista Ruffini
Journal of Human Resources, July 2023, 58 (4) 1385-1427; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.59.2.0419-10160R2
Patricio Dominguez
Patricio Dominguez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Altern Director of MIGRA Millenium Nucleus (pdomingr{at}ing.puc.cl).
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Krista Ruffini is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University (kr333{at}georgetown.edu).
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