School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Michael Fertig and Robert Wright ()

No 9, RWI Discussion Papers from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

Abstract: Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy.The analysis suggests that the probability of finding tatistically significant and correctly signed class size effects increases the higher the level of aggregation used to measure class size.

Keywords: Class size; PISA data; bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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Journal Article: School quality, educational attainment and aggregation bias (2005)
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