PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Patricio Dominguez
AU  - Krista Ruffini
TI  - Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.59.2.0419-10160R2
DP  - 2021 May 13
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0419-10160R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/05/04/jhr.59.2.0419-10160R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/05/04/jhr.59.2.0419-10160R2.full
AB  - This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood. We leverage cross-municipality and cross-cohort variation in a reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010 and find that full-day schooling increased educational attainment, delayed childbearing, and increased earnings when students reached young adulthood. These findings are consistent with a human capital channel and demonstrate large-scale investments in public education can yield long-term economic benefits.