Resources and Student Achievement—Evidence from a Swedish Policy Reform* |
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Authors: | Peter Fredriksson Björn Öckert |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, SE‐751 20 Uppsala, Sweden peter.fredriksson@ifau.uu.se;2. Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, SE‐751 20 Uppsala, Sweden bjorn.ockert@ifau.uu.se |
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Abstract: | A policy change is used to estimate the effect of teacher density on student performance. We find that an increase in teacher density has a positive effect on student achievement. The baseline estimate—obtained by using the grade‐point average as the outcome variable—implies that resource increases corresponding to the class‐size reduction in the STAR experiment (a reduction of seven students) improves performance by 2.6 percentile ranks (or 0.08 standard deviations). When we used test‐score data for men, potentially a more objective measure of student performance, the effect of resources appears to be twice as large. |
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Keywords: | Student performance teacher/student ratio policy reform difference‐in‐differences I21 I28 J24 |
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