Do class size effects differ across grades?

Anne Brink Nandrup ()
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Anne Brink Nandrup: Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark, Postal: 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: This paper contributes to the class size literature by analyzing whether short-run class size effects are constant across grade levels in compulsory school. Results are based on administrative data on all pupils enroled in Danish public schools. Identification is based on a government-imposed class size cap that creates exogenous variation in class sizes. Significant (albeit modest) negative effects of class size increases are found for children on primary school levels. The effects on math abilities are statistically different across primary and secondary school. Larger classes do not affect girls, non-Western immigrants and socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils more adversely than other pupils.

Keywords: Class size; regression discontinuity; compulsory schooling; literacy; test scores (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2015-02-23
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