全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20173
来源ID	Working Paper 20173
	In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
	Joshua D. Angrist; Erich Battistin; Daniela Vuri
发表日期	2014-05-29
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size reductions for residents of the Mezzogiorno. In addition to high unemployment and other social problems, however, the Mezzogiorno is distinguished by pervasive manipulation of standardized test scores, a finding revealed in a natural experiment that randomly assigned school monitors. IV estimates also show that small classes increase score manipulation. Estimates of a causal model for achievement with two endogenous variables, class size and score manipulation, suggest that the effects of class size on measured achievement are driven entirely by the relationship between class size and manipulation. Dishonest scoring appears to be a consequence of teacher shirking more than teacher cheating. These findings show how consequential score manipulation can arise even in assessment systems with few NCLB-style accountability concerns.
主题	Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20173
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577846
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Joshua D. Angrist,Erich Battistin,Daniela Vuri. In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno. 2014.