TY - BOOK AU - Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro AU - Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro AU - Vermeersch,Christel TI - More Time Is Better: An Evaluation of the Full Time School Program in Uruguay PY - 2007/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The World Bank KW - Academic Year KW - Disability KW - Education KW - Education for All KW - Effective Schools and Teachers KW - Gender KW - Gender and Education KW - Human Development KW - Learning Outcomes KW - Literature KW - Ministry of Education KW - Papers KW - Pedagogical Model KW - Primary Education KW - Research KW - School KW - Schools KW - Science KW - Secondary Education KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Student KW - Student Achievement KW - Student Learning KW - Students KW - Teacher KW - Teacher Training KW - Teachers KW - Teaching KW - Tertiary Education N2 - This paper estimates the impact of the full-time school program in Uruguay on standardized test scores of 6th grade students. The program lengthened the school day from a half day to a full day, and provided additional inputs to schools to make this possible, such as additional teachers and construction of classrooms. The program was not randomly placed, but targeted poor urban schools. Using propensity score matching, the authors construct a comparable group of schools, and show that students in very disadvantaged schools improved in their test scores by 0.07 of a standard deviation per year of participation in the full-time program in mathematics, and 0.04 in language. While the program is expensive, it may, if well targeted, help address inequalities in education in Uruguay, at an increase in cost per student not larger than the current deficit in spending between Uruguay and the rest of the region UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-4167 ER -