The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation

Hoxby, Caroline M.

doi:10.1162/003355300555060

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“…The seminal paper is Angrist and Lavy (1999). See also Gary-Bobo and Mahjoub (2006); Hoxby (2000); Leuven, Oosterbeek, and Rønning (2008); Urquiola andVerhoogen (2009). 11.…”

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Long-Term Effects of Class Size *

Fredriksson¹,

Öckert²,

Oosterbeek³

2012

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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This article evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are beneficial for cognitive and noncognitive ability at age 13, and improve achievement at age 16. Most important, we find that smaller classes have positive effects on completed education, wages, and earnings at age 27 to 42. The estimated wage effect is large enough to pass a cost-benefit test. JEL Codes: I21, I28, J24, C31.

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“…The seminal paper is Angrist and Lavy (1999). See also Gary-Bobo and Mahjoub (2006); Hoxby (2000); Leuven, Oosterbeek, and Rønning (2008); Urquiola andVerhoogen (2009). 11.…”

Section: Effects Of Class Sizementioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Effects of Class Size *

Fredriksson¹,

Öckert²,

Oosterbeek³

2012

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

205

154

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“…Krueger, 2003), or exploit quasi experimental setups that generate arguably exogenous variation in class size (f.e. Angrist and Lavy, 1999;Hoxby, 2000;Leuven et al, 2008).…”

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Long-Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School

Leuven¹,

Løkken²

2018

J. Human Resources

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Abstract:How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples' long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size rules and Norwegian administrative registries allowing us to observe outcomes up to age 48. We do not find any indication of beneficial effects of class size reduction in compulsory school. For a 1 person reduction in class size we can rule out effects on income as small as 0.087 percent in primary school and 0.12 percent in middle school. Population differences in parental background, school size or competitive pressure do not appear to reconcile our findings with previous studies. Keywords

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“…The more relevant question is whether schools are forced to hire teachers who contribute less to a student's achievement growth. Jepsen & Rivkin (2009) analyze California's CSR program to estimate the relationship 3 Note that not all experimental and quasi-experimental studies find significant class-size effects (Hoxby 2000). A recent paper by Rockoff (2009) discusses the results of several class-size experiments from the beginning of the twentieth century and concludes that the balance of these early class-size experiments suggest there was little achievement benefit to attending smaller classes.…”

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Class-size reduction policies and the quality of entering teachers

Dieterle

2015

Labour Economics

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State-wide class-size reduction (CSR) policies have typically failed to produce large achievement gains. One explanation is that the introduction of such policies forces schools to hire relatively low-quality teachers. This paper uses data from an anonymous state to explore whether teacher quality suffered from the introduction of CSR. We find that it did, but not nearly enough to explain the small achievement effects of CSR. The combined fall in achievement due to hiring lower quality teachers and more inexperienced teachers is small relative to the unrealized gains. Furthermore, betweenschool differences in the quality of incoming teachers cannot explain the poor estimated CSR performance from previous quasi-experimental treatment-control comparisons. * I would like to thank

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The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation

Cited by 690 publications

References 6 publications

Long-Term Effects of Class Size *

Long-Term Effects of Class Size *

Long-Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School

Class-size reduction policies and the quality of entering teachers

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