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Quasi-experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Edwin Leuven
Hessel Oosterbeek
Marte Rønning
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Using a comprehensive Norwegian administrative database, we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement at the end of lower-secondary school. Identification based on maximum class-size rules and population variation (and variations on these methods) give very similar estimates. We cannot reject that the class-size effect is equal to zero, and can rule out effects as small as 1.5 percent of a standard deviation for a one-student change in class size during three consecutive years. Copyright © The editors of the "Scandinavian Journal of Economics" 2008 .
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Volume (Year): 110 (2008)
Issue (Month): 4 (December)
Pages: 663-693
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Paper Leuven, Edwin & Oosterbeek, Hessel & Rønning, Marte, 2008.
"Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
3474, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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"Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway ,"
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