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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Kiel Working Papers, 1099
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Authors

  • Wößmann
  • L.
  • West
  • M.R.

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JEL Classification

I2

Key Words

class size

educational production

instrumental variables

school fixed effects

student performance

TIMSS

We employ a combination of school fixed effects and IV estimation to estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries. Using the random part of the class-size variation between two adjacent grades within individual schools allows u

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