"Using shocks to school enrollment to estimate the effect of school size on student achievement"
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Economics of Education Review,
2006
Volume: 25
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Issue: 1
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Pages: 63-75
Publication type: Journal article
Research Archive Topic: Business Economics and Public Policy, Corporate Finance
Abstract
Previous studies of the connection between school enrollment size and student achievement use cross-sectional econometric models and thus do not account for unobserved heterogeneity across schools. To address this concern, I utilize school-level panel data, and generate first-differences estimates of the effect of school size on achievement. Moreover, to account for the possibility that trends in both achievement and enrollment size are jointly determined, I exploit shocks to enrollment provided by school openings, closings, and mergers in a two-stage-least-squares estimation. The results suggest that smaller schools increase both math scores and attendance rates and that the benefit of smaller schools outweigh the cost.
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