Bandiera, Oriana, Larcinese, Valentino and Rasul, Imran (2010) Heterogeneous class size effects: new evidence from a panel of university students. Economic Journal, 120 (549). pp. 1365-1398. ISSN 0013-0133
Abstract
Using administrative records from a UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We estimate non-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogen-eity of students and faculty. We find that: (i) at the average class size, the effect size is -0.108; (ii) the effect size is negative and significant only for the smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero in intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the test score distribution are more affected by changes in class size, especially when class sizes are very large.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Authors |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Sets: | Departments > Economics Departments > Government Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2011 16:45 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/33263/ |
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