Resources and student achievement – evidence from a Swedish policy reform

Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert ()
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Björn Öckert: IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden, http://www.ifau.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=6396

No 2007:26, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

Abstract: This paper utilizes a policy change to estimate the effect of teacher density on student performance. We find that an increase in teacher density has a positive effect on student achievement. The baseline estimate – obtained by using the grade point average as the outcome variable – implies that resource increases corresponding to the class-size reduction in the STAR-experiment (i.e., a reduction of 7 students) improves performance by 2.6 percentile ranks (or 0.08 standard deviations). When we use test score data for men, potentially a more objective measure of student performance, the effect of resources appears to be twice the size of the baseline estimate.

Keywords: Student performance; teacher/student ratio; policy reform; differences-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I28 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-hrm and nep-ure
Date: 2007-10-19

Published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, pages 277-296.

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