Dills, Angela; Mulholland, Sean - In: Education Economics 18 (2010) 4, pp. 435-454
between public and private schools. Using a nationally representative sample from the USA, we show that, within public schools …, third-grade class size is correlated with first-grade ability and, to a lesser extent, first-grade behavior. Private schools … experience to smaller classes. Class size determination is due to uniquely different processes within public and private schools. …