Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway

Marte Rønning, Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Abstract: Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasiexperimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a maximum class size rule in the spirit Angrist and Lavy (1999). The second method exploits population variation as first proposed by Hoxby (2000). The results of both methods (and of variations on these methods) are very similar and cannot reject that the class size effect is equal to zero. The estimates are very precise; we can rule out effects as small as 1.5 percent of a standard deviation for a one student change in class size during three years in a row.

Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2008-04-20
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Journal Article: Quasi‐experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway (2008)
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