Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway
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| Publication date | 2008 |
| Journal | The Scandinavian Journal of Economics |
| Volume | Issue number | 110 | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 663-693 |
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| Abstract | Using a comprehensive Norwegian administrative database, we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement at the end of lower-secondary school. Identification based on maximum class-size rules and population variation (and variations on these methods) give very similar estimates. We cannot reject that the class-size effect is equal to zero, and can rule out effects as small as 1.5 percent of a standard deviation for a one-student change in class size during three consecutive years. |
| Document type | Article |
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00556.x
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