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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate … significant and correctly signed class size effects increases the higher the level of aggregation used to measure class size. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703180
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Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers
Martins, Pedro; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We examine the empirical determinants of student achievement in higher education, focusing our attention on its small-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233785
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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
Leuven, Edwin; Rønning, Marte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283578
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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Rønning, Marte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703286
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822384
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Urquiola, Miguel; Verhoogen, Eric A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761805
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Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison
Wolter, Stefan C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703705
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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700868
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The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
a unique longitudinal survey that follows the PISA 2000 students in their educational and work-life career. We test … whether deviance in the PISA test scores from what one would have predicted based on observable characteristics, influences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836683
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What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later?
Bertschy, Kathrin; Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
performance during compulsory education. This paper uses a unique Swiss longitudinal data-set, which includes information on PISA … vocational training, who obtained lower PISA results, are significantly more likely to be in an inadequate employment situation … followed at upper-secondary level that is decisive for the success in the transition. Nevertheless, individual PISA scores have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761762