Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects. Conv...
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ftleibnizopen:oai:oai.leibnizopen.de:nv0qF4cBdbrxVwz6q3Vp 2023-05-15T16:50:05+02:00 Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS West, Martin R. Wößmann, Ludger 2002 https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/17754/1/kap1099.pdf eng eng Kiel: Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW) http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen Bildungsniveau Allgemeinbildende Schule Schätzung Welt Klassengröße jel:I2 educational production class size student sorting school fixed effects instrumental variables TIMSS Working Paper 2002 ftleibnizopen 2023-03-26T23:29:28Z We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be severely biased in most school systems by within- and between-school sorting of students. Differences in our estimates across countries suggest that it is misleading to generalize results from one school system to others. While we find sizable beneficial effects of smaller classes in Greece and Iceland, the possibility of even small effects is rejected in Japan and Singapore. In 11 countries, we rule out large class-size effects. The existence of class-size effects, and the lack thereof, in different school systems appears to be related to the relative quality of the teaching force. Report Iceland LeibnizOpen (The Leibniz Association) |
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We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows us to identify causal class-size effects. Conventional estimates of class-size effects are shown to be severely biased in most school systems by within- and between-school sorting of students. Differences in our estimates across countries suggest that it is misleading to generalize results from one school system to others. While we find sizable beneficial effects of smaller classes in Greece and Iceland, the possibility of even small effects is rejected in Japan and Singapore. In 11 countries, we rule out large class-size effects. The existence of class-size effects, and the lack thereof, in different school systems appears to be related to the relative quality of the teaching force. |
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS |
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