全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP6430 Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP6430
	DP6430 Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
	Daron Acemoğlu; Simon Johnson; James Robinson; Pierre Yared
发表日期	2007-08-17
出版年	2007
语种	英语
摘要	This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness to pay for school quality, and schools are subject to a class-size cap. The model offers an explanation for two distinct empirical patterns observed among private schools that accept government vouchers: (i) There is an inverted-U relationship between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of class size on student performance. (ii) Some schools at the class size cap adjust prices (or enrollments) to avoid adding another classroom, which produces stacking at enrollments that are multiples of the class size cap. This generates discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics at those points, violating the assumptions underlying regression-discontinuity (RD) research designs. This result suggests that caution is warranted in applying the RD approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their enrollments.
主题	Development Economics
关键词	Class size Regression discontinuity Sorting
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp6430
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/535268
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Daron Acemoğlu,Simon Johnson,James Robinson,et al. DP6430 Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis. 2007.