全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP5765 How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP5765
	DP5765 How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy
	Giorgio Barba Navaretti; Anne-Célia Disdier; Davide Castellani
发表日期	2006-07-26
出版年	2006
语种	英语
摘要	Using a rich sample of students from French junior high schools with a panel structure, we obtain small but significant and negative effects of class size on probabilities of educational success, in grades 6 and 7. An 8 to 10 student reduction of class size puts the child of a non-educated mother on an equal footing with the child of a college-educated mother. These effects vanish in grades 8 and 9. We use Angrist and Lavy's (1999) theoretical class size (i.e., "Maimonides' rule") as an instrument for observed class size. This is possible, due to availability of total high school and total grade enrollment in each year, in our exceptional data set. We control for father occupation, mother education and other variables. Using a Probit framework to model transitions from one grade to another (and thus grade repetitions), we simultaneously estimate the student's probabilities of success over 4 years in junior high school. This is done while allowing a general covariance structure of the error terms that affect latent student-performance variables and class-size auxiliary equations.
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Education Class size Econometrics Instrumental variables Junior high school
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp5765
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534606
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Giorgio Barba Navaretti,Anne-Célia Disdier,Davide Castellani. DP5765 How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy. 2006.