Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02364.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 1365-1398
• 关键词: teachers; education

摘要

Using administrative records from a UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We estimate non-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogen-eity of students and faculty. We find that: (i) at the average class size, the effect size is -0.108; (ii) the effect size is negative and significant only for the smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero in intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the test score distribution are more affected by changes in class size, especially when class sizes are very large.