Maimonides' Rule Redux

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy, Jetson Leder-Luis and Adi Shany

American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, vol. 1, issue 3, 309-24

Abstract: We use Maimonides' rule as an instrument for class size in large Israeli samples from 2002–2011. In contrast with Angrist and Lavy (1999), newer estimates show no evidence of class size effects. The new data also reveal enrollment manipulation near Maimonides cutoffs. A modified rule that uses birthdays to impute enrollment circumvents manipulation while still generating precisely estimated zeros. In both old and new data, Maimonides' rule is unrelated to socioeconomic characteristics conditional on a few controls. Enrollment manipulation therefore appears to be innocuous. We briefly discuss possible explanations for the disappearance of Israeli class size effects since the early 1990s.

JEL-codes: C38 H52 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aeri.20180120
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