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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. …

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A Cross-national analysis of the relations between school choice and effectiveness differences between private-independent and public schools

Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of the disparity in school effectiveness between the privately owned, privately funded school sector and the public one in a sample of 25 countries in Europe, America and Asia. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and...

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Teacher experience and the class size effect — Experimental evidence

Mueller, Steffen - In: Journal of Public Economics 98 (2013) C, pp. 44-52

We analyze teacher experience as a moderating factor for the effect of class size reduction on student achievement in the early grades using data from the Tennessee STAR experiment with random assignment of teachers and students to classes of different sizes. The analysis is motivated by the...

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The quantity and quality of teachers: Dynamics of the trade-off

Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 3, pp. 417-429

The paper addresses the two-fold rise in teacher–student ratio in the American K-12 school system in the post-World War II period accompanied by the evidence of a decline in the relative quality of teachers. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium framework for analyzing the teacher...

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No cohort left behind?

Babcock, Philip; Bedard, Kelly; Schulte, Jennifer - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 3, pp. 347-354

Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged benefits of smallness—of classroom or school—and is based on evidence from small-scale studies. This paper reframes the question in terms of cohort size. Using national data, we find that a 10% increase in...

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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Wößmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects....

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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 …

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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland

Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size … avoid endogeneity bias, then class size negatively affects student achievement. However, this effect is rather small. We … discuss methodology, possible bias of results and the importance of our findings to current policy issues in Poland. …

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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

Urquiola, Miguel; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of …

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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