The effects of school class size on length of post-compulsory education. Some cost-benefit analysis.

Autor/inn/en	Bingley, Paul; Myrup Jensen, Vibeke; Walker, Ian
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	The effects of school class size on length of post-compulsory education. Some cost-benefit analysis.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2005), 41 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Bonn). 1605
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Geschwister; Schulsystem; Schulpflicht; Schulklasse; Klassengröße; Sekundarbereich; Weiterführende Schule; Datenanalyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Ausbildungsdauer; Forschungsstand; Wirkung; Dänemark
Abstract	This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome - length of time in post-compulsory schooling. Research on this topic has been problematic partly because omitted unobservables, like parents' incomes and education levels, are likely to be correlated with class size. Two potential ways to resolve this problem are to exploit either experimental or instrumental variation. In both cases, the methods require that the variation in both class size and the outcome should not be contaminated by other unobservable factors that affect the outcome - like family background. An alternative approach, which the authors pursue here, is to take advantage of variation in class size between siblings which allows unobservable family effects to be differenced out. Their aim is to provide estimates of the effect of class size and use these to conduct an evaluation of the costs and benefits of a reduction in class sizes. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/3