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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics.
Uppsala University, Units outside the University, The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU).
2013 (English)In: Quarterly Journal of Economics, ISSN 0033-5533, E-ISSN 1531-4650, Vol. 128, no 1, p. 249-285Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This article evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are beneficial for cognitive and noncognitive ability at age 13, and improve achievement at age 16. Most important, we find that smaller classes have positive effects on completed education, wages, and earnings at age 27 to 42. The estimated wage effect is large enough to pass a cost-benefit test.

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2013. Vol. 128, no 1, p. 249-285
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-197121DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjs048ISI: 000314883900006OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-197121DiVA, id: diva2:611930
Available from: 2013-03-19 Created: 2013-03-18 Last updated: 2019-01-16

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