Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62512 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6802
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope parameter estimator is asymptotically Gaussian. Monte Carlo studies are carried out to investigate the finite sample performance of the proposed method in comparison with other candidate methods. We discuss an approach to testing the model specification against a competing fixed effects specification. The paper presents an empirical application of the method to study the effect of class size and class composition on educational attainment. The findings show that (i) a change in the gender composition of a class impacts differently low- and high-performing students; (ii) while smaller classes are beneficial for low performers, larger classes are beneficial for high performers; (iii) reductions in class size do not seem to impact mean and median student performance; (iv) the fixed effects specification is rejected in favor of the interactive effects specification.
Subjects: 
quantile regression
panel data
interactive effects
instrumental variables
class size
educational attainment
JEL: 
C23
C33
I21
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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