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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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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...

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School Resources

Hanushek, Eric A. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

Although there is intense policy interest in improving educational outcomes around the world, there is much greater uncertainty about how to accomplish this. The primary governmental decisions often relate to the resources that are devoted to schooling, but the research indicates little...

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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

Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland

Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

We investigate the size-related features of the production function of Polish primary schools. The interplay of small schools ineffectiveness and of organizational and social difficulties appearing in large schools implies that the relationship between school size and student achievement is...

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