Identifying Class Size Effects in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural Bolivia

By Miguel S. Urquiola. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006

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Maimonides Rule Redux (2019, unknown): “Maimonides-style empirical strategies have been used to identify class size effects in many countries, including the US (Hoxby 2000), France (Piketty 2004 and Gary-Bobo and Mahjoub 2013), Norway (Bonesronning 2003 and Leuven, Oosterbeek and Ronning 2008), Bolivia (Urquiola 2006), and the Netherlands”
The Cost of Grade Retention (2012, unknown): “See for example Angrist and Lavy (1999), van der Klaauw (2002), Jacob and Lefgren (2004), Urquiola (2006) .”
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.”
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.”
Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design (2009, background): “…McMillan, and Kim Rueben ( 2004 ) , Joseph G. Altonji, Ching-I Huang, and Christopher R. Taber ( 2005 ) , Urquiola ( 2005 ) , Damon Clark ( 2005 ) , Epple, Romano, and Holger Sieg ( 2006 ) , Chang-Tai Hsieh and Urquiola ( 2006 ) , Jesse M. Rothstein ( 2006 ) , and Maria Marta Ferreyra ( 2007 ) .”