Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207453 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12628
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed Effects models on the population of postgraduate candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design (RDD). We find that class size does impact grades adversely overall; and the policy aimed at reducing class size impacts grades favourably. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications as well as being supported by the validity tests we conducted.
Subjects: 
grades
class size
higher education
RDD
JEL: 
I21
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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