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Long Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School
Leuven, Edwin - 2017
on income as small as 0.087 percent in primary school and 0.12 percent in middle school. Population differences in …
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Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
de Haan, Monique - 2016
, blacks and Hispanics. For wage income we also find evidence that Head Start has beneficial impacts, with effects located at …
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...
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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found to outperform pupils in single grade classrooms on high stake central exit tests and teacher set...
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Rønning, Marte - 2021
Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a maximum class size rule in the spirit Angrist and Lavy (1999). The second method exploits...
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Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds
Leuven, Edwin - 2006
early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are … children having their birthday before, during and after the summer holiday are placed in the same class. These features … generate sufficient exogenous variation in children's maximum length of schooling to identify its effects on test scores …
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