Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design

By Miguel S. Urquiola, E. Verhoogen. 2009

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The effect of language training on immigrants’ economic integration: Empirical evidence from France (2019, unknown): “Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009) study the effect of class-size on student outcomes, focusing on the relationship between schools’ choices of class size and households’ choices of schools.4 Manacorda (2012) employs data on junior high school students in Uruguay and finds that grade failure increases…”
School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores (2011, background): “…types of education spending translate into learning outcomes, and (b) parameters of education production functions are typically not identified if household inputs respond to changes in school-level inputs (see Urquiola and Verhoogen 2009 for one such example in the context of class-size).”
Including Covariates in the Regression Discontinuity Design (2018, background): “In the context of Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009), for instance, ambition might (in addition to parents’ education and household income) play a role for selectively (re)placing students into particular class sizes.”
School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools (2012, unknown): “2 See Banerjee, Jacob, and Kremer (2005), Banerjee et al. (2007), and, for a well-identified non-experimental study, Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009).”
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics (2010, unknown): “Examples of this kind of testing of the RD design include Jordan D. Matsudaira (2008), Card, Raj Chetty and Andrea Weber (2007), DiNardo and Lee (2004), Lee, Moretti and Butler (2004), McCrary and Royer (2003), Greenstone and Gallagher (2008), and Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009). nonzero”(p. 647).”
Using a Regression Discontinuity Design to Estimate the Impact of Placement Decisions in Developmental Math (2015, methodology): “As a viable alternative to RCTs, RDD studies have been used in program evaluation and policy research across a wide range of policy areas, ranging from labor research to financial analysis to medical research (Angrist and Lavy 1999; Gamse et al. 2008; Robinson 2011; Urquiola and Verhoogen 2009; Zuck”
Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336 (2013, unknown): “Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009) construct a model of school and household behavior in a setting where parents are free to choose between schools and schools are free to adjust prices and reject pupils.”
Robustness checks and robustness tests in applied economics (2014, unknown): “…M and V are given by M diag(M 1 ; :::; M J ) and V [V kj ]; where, for k; j = 1; :::; J; M j E(DD 0 ) E(DX 0 j ) E(X j D 0 ) E(X j X 0 j ) and V kj E(" k " j DD 0 ) E(" k " j DX 0 j ) E(" k " j X k D 0 ) E(" k " j X k X 0 j ) : See Chalak and White (2009) for regularity conditions in this context.”
Long-Term Effects of Class Size (2013, unknown): “Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009) document an example of this in the context of a maximum class size rule in Chile.”
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con Out of Econometrics (2010, unknown): “…read and do, are Richardson and Troost (2009), who exploit regional differences in Fed behavior during the Depression to study liquidity effects, and Velde (2009), who describes the results of an extreme monetary experiment much like the one Lucas envisioned (albeit in eighteenth-century France).”
Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design (2012, background): “2A similar concern is often raised in regression discontinuity designs – see Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009), for example.”
Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education (2011, unknown): “9 School choice and school outcomes in relation to the voucher system in Chile have been the focus of several important studies (Hsieh & Urquiola, 2006; Mizala & Urquiola, 2007; Urquiola & Verhoogen, 2009; Bravo, Mukhopadhyay, and Todd, 2010).”
School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools' Effectiveness. NBER Working Paper No. 13676. (2007, unknown): “Urquiola and Verhoogen (2009) suggest that profit-maximizing Chilean schools view the choice of the number of classrooms to operate as a serious one, if only because it influences their fixed costs.”