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Dills, Angela K.; Mulholland, Sean E. – Education Economics, 2010
This paper tests three theories of class size determination: that schools assign better-behaved students, higher quality teachers, or higher-achieving students into larger classes. Furthermore, we estimate how these methodologies differ between public and private schools. Using a nationally representative sample from the USA, we show that, within…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Class Size, Private Schools, Academic Achievement