Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/78702 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007:26
Publisher: 
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper utilizes a policy change to estimate the effect of teacher density on student performance. We find that an increase in teacher density has a positive effect on student achievement. The baseline estimate – obtained by using the grade point average as the outcome variable – implies that resource increases corresponding to the class-size reduction in the STAR-experiment (i.e., a reduction of 7 students) improves performance by 2.6 percentile ranks (or 0.08 standard deviations). When we use test score data for men, potentially a more objective measure of student performance, the effect of resources appears to be twice the size of the baseline estimate.
Subjects: 
Student performance
teacher/student ratio
policy reform
differences-in-differences
JEL: 
I21
I28
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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