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Long term impacts of class size in compulsory school

How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples’ long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size rules and Norwegian administrative registries allowing us to observe outcomes up to age 48. We do not find any indication of beneficial effects of class size reduction in compulsory school. For a 1 person reduction in class size we can rule out effects on income as small as 0.087 percent in primary school and 0.12 percent in middle school. Population differences in parental background, school size or competitive pressure do not appear to reconcile our findings with previous studies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 858

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education: Government Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables: General
Thema
Class size
Schooling
Earnings
Regression Discontinuity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Leuven, Edwin
Løkken, Sturla A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Statistics Norway, Research Department
(wo)
Oslo
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Leuven, Edwin
  • Løkken, Sturla A.
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

Entstanden

  • 2017

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