School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Michael Fertig and Robert Wright ()

No 994, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects increases the higher the level of aggregation used to measure class size.

Keywords: class size; PISA data; bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2004-01
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 88 (1), 109-114

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