Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
By O. Bandiera, Valentino Larcinese, Imran Rasul. Social Science Research Network, 2010
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Using administrative records from a UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students’ test scores. We estimate non-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of students and faculty. We find that: (i) at the average class size, the effect size is � 0.108; (ii) the effect size is negative and significant only for the smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero in intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the test score distribution are more affected by changes in class size, especially when class sizes are very large. The organisation of university education remains in the spotlight both in academia and policy circles. Recent research has stressed the importance of higher education in providing positive externalities within firms (Moretti, 2004), within local labour markets (Glaeser et al., 1992) and in fostering economy wide growth as a whole (Aghion et al., 2007). Concurrently, most OECD countries have adopted supply side policies that have led to dramatic increases in university enrolment during the last decade. 1
Subfields: Education
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- Imran Rasul
- John A. List
- Felix Weinhardt
- Olmo Silva
- Victor Lavy
- Damon Clark
- E. Taylor
- Joshua Goodman
Citations in the corpus
- School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools (2012, unknown): “Bandiera et al. (2010) find evidence of non-linear class-size effects at the university level.”
- Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “31 sizes in Bandiera et al. (2010)?”
- The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools (2012, methodology): “Finally, Bandiera et al. (2010) study class-size effects at the university level using a within-pupil specification similar to ours.”