Do Differences in School's Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps in Maths, Science and Language? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries

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TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics. (2012, methodology): “For example, a recent study published by the London School of Economics used data from PISA 2006 and from 10- and 13-year-olds in Israel to compare achievement estimates for the same students across curriculum subjects, and found that instructional time has a positive and significant effect on achie”
Spending more of the school day in math class: Evidence from a regression discontinuity in middle school (2014, methodology): “Other research has used between-country variation (Lavy 2010) or between-teacher variation (Brown and Saks 1987, Raudenbush, Hong, and Rowan 2002) in subject-to-subject time allocation decisions.”
School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools (2012, unknown): “This is consistent with Lavy (2010), who finds greater productivity of instructional time in countries with greater school accountability and school autonomy in hiring and firing teachers.”