"In a Hurry to Graduate? The Effects of Compressed Schooling on Degree Completion"
Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, this paper exploits a federal education reform that compressed instructional time to study how more intense education influenced degree completion. Staggered difference-in-differences estimates indicate that compressing instruction increased late graduation by 19.3 percentage points but actually increased the share of students who finally graduated by 5.7 percentage points. This may reflect a normalization of late graduation with the reform, and so an increased willingness to do so. As a consequence, the average time spent to graduate decreased even as the graduation rate increased.
"Fast-Tracked to the Labor Market: The Wage Impacts of Compressed Schooling" (2025)
"Understanding the Interplay between Personality, Cognition, and Childhood SES in Determining Educational Success" (2024)