Class Size, Teacher Hours and Educational Attainment
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Class size, teacher hours and educational attainment
We employ a regression-discontinuity design to identify effects on educational attainment (years of education) of class size and the number of pupils per weekly teacher hour using administrative rules as instruments. We use a Danish administrative panel data set based on a 10% random sample of eight cohorts of pupils (and their parents). Restricting the sample to observations close to enrolment...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0347-0520,1467-9442
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2007.00492.x