Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35211 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3474
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental 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.
Subjects: 
Class size
educational production
JEL: 
I2
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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