ARE THERE ANY CLASS SIZE EFFECTS ON EARLY CAREER EARNINGS IN WEST GERMANY?

Hans J. Baumgartner ()

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Abstract: This paper analyses the effect of school quality on early career earnings. Using confidential district level information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), it is demonstrated that class size has no discernible effect on early career earnings. This finding is robust to changes in specification and the choice of sub-samples. The economic literature focused so far mainly on the US and the UK. This paper confirms this literature and adds new evidence to the growing literature on this issue from Germany.

Keywords: school quality; class size; labour market outcomes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J31 C52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-05-12, Revised 2003-11-05
Note: Type of Document - pdf; prepared on MS Word => pdf; pages: 21 ; figures: included

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Working Paper: Are There Any Class Size Effects on Early Career Earnings in West Germany? (2004)
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