Do the disadvantaged benefit more from small classes? Evidence from a large-scale survey in Japan

Masakazu Hojo and Wataru Senoh

Japan and the World Economy, 2019, vol. 52, issue C

Abstract: This study examines whether class size has heterogeneous effects for students from different socio-economic backgrounds by exploiting rich student-level data obtained from a nationwide survey in Japan. We find substantial disparities in cognitive skills among students from different socio-economic backgrounds. While the overall effect of class size on cognitive ability of ninth-grade students is small, we find that class-size reduction has a larger effect on cognitive ability of economically disadvantaged students. We find no signs related to systematic enrollment manipulation.

Keywords: Education; Class size; Academic achievement; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2019.100965

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