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Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design

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Urquiola, Miguel, Verhoogen, Eric·2009·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.99.1.179
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This paper examines how schools' choices of class size and households' choices of schools affect regression-discontinuity-based estimates of the effect of class size on student outcomes. We build a model in which schools are subject to a class-size cap and an integer constraint on the number of classrooms, and higher-income households sort into higher-quality schools. The key prediction, borne out in data from Chile's liberalized education market, is that schools at the class-size cap adjust prices (or enrollments) to avoid adding an additional classroom, which generates discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics, violating the assumptions underlying regression-discontinuity research designs. (JEL D12, I21, I28, O15)

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Authors
Urquiola, M., & Verhoogen, E.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2009-02-01
Volume
99
Issue
1
Pages
179-215
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.99.1.179
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195
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journal article
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