Arbeitspapier
Class size and sorting in market equilibrium: theory and evidence
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct empirical patterns observed among private schools that accept government vouchers: (i) There is an inverted-U relationship between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of class size on student performance. (ii) Some schools at the class size cap adjust prices (or enrollments) to avoid adding another classroom, which produces stacking at enrollments that are multiples of the class size cap. This generates discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics at those points, violating the assumptions underlying regression-discontinuity (RD) research designs. This result suggests that caution is warranted in applying the RD approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their enrollments.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2963
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Bildungspolitik
Schule
Klassengröße
Bildungsertrag
Haushaltseinkommen
Chile
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Urquiola Soux, Miguel
Verhoogen, Eric A.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Urquiola Soux, Miguel
- Verhoogen, Eric A.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2007
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