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| Title: | | Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence  |
| Authors: | | Woessmann, Ludger West, Martin R. |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 744 |
| Abstract: | | We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results indicate substantial compensatory sorting within and especially between schools in many countries. Only the United States, a country with decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. |
| Subjects: | | student sorting class size educational achievement |
| JEL: | | I28 H52 D73 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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