Class size, student performance and Tiebout bias

Uwe Jirjahn, Christian Pfeifer and Georgi Tsertsvadze

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 10, 1049-1052

Abstract: If students tend to choose instructors with high teaching ability, a negative link between class size and student performance may remain obscured until this kind of sorting has been taken into account. Using data from student evaluation surveys, we confirm that it is crucial to control for instructor fixed effects.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850701335285

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