Effects of Class-Size Reduction, On Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hirotake Ito, Makiko Nakamuro and Shintaro Yamaguchi
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Hirotake Ito: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
Makiko Nakamuro: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
Shintaro Yamaguchi: Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

No CIRJE-F-1113, CIRJE F-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: We estimate the effects of class-size reduction by exploiting exoge-nous variation caused by Maimonides' rule that requires the maximumclass size be 40 and class be split when 41 students are enrolled. Ourdata cover all fourth to ninth graders in 1,064 public schools in ananonymous prefecture for three years. We find that the effects ofclass-size reduction on academic test scores are small on average, butslightly stronger for students not going to a private tutoring school.We find no evidence that small class size improves non-cognitive skills.Our substantive conclusion does not change when school fixed effectsare controlled.

Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2019-01
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