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Class Size Effects: Evidence Using a New Estimation Technique

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  • Kevin Denny

    (University College Dublin)

  • Veruska Oppedisano

    (University College London)

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This paper estimates the marginal effect of class size on educational attainment of high school students. We control for the potential endogeneity of class size in two ways using a conventional instrumental variable approach, based on changes in cohort size, and an alternative method where identification is based on restriction on higher moments. The data is drawn from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) collected in 2003 for the United States and the United Kingdom. Using either method or the two in conjunction leads to the conclusion that increases in class size lead to improvements in student’s mathematics scores. Only the results for the United Kingdom are statistically significant.

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Paper provided by School Of Economics, University College Dublin in its series Working Papers with number 201039.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: 09 Dec 2010
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Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:201039

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Keywords: class sizes; educational production;

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  1. Class Sizes Revisited: Denny and Oppedisano
    by Liam Delaney in The Irish Economy on 2010-12-07 22:29:20
  2. New evidence on class size effects
    by Kevin Denny in Geary Behaviour Centre on 2010-12-07 13:58:00
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  1. Vinod Mishra & Russell Smyth, 2012. "Are More Senior Academics Really More Research Productive than Junior Academics? Evidence from Australian Law Schools," Monash Economics Working Papers 47-12, Monash University, Department of Economics.
  2. Vinod Mishra & Russell Smyth, 2012. "Returns to Schooling in Urban China: New Evidence Using Heteroskedasticity Restrictions to Obtain Identification Without Exclusion Restrictions," Monash Economics Working Papers 33-12, Monash University, Department of Economics.
  3. Vinod Mishra & Russell Smyth, 2012. "It Pays to Be Happy (If You are a Man): Subjective Wellbeing and the Gender Wage Gap in Urban China," Monash Economics Working Papers 51-12, Monash University, Department of Economics.

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