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ERIC Number: ED648154
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr
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Heterogeneity and Endogenous Compliance: Implications for Scaling Class Size Interventions. Working Paper 32338
Karun Adusumilli; Francesco Agostinelli; Emilio Borghesan
National Bureau of Economic Research
This paper examines the scalability of the results from the Tennessee Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project, a prominent educational experiment. We explore how the misalignment between the experimental design and the econometric model affects researchers' ability to learn about the intervention's scalability. We document heterogeneity in compliance with class-size reduction that is more extensive than previously acknowledged and discuss its consequences for the evaluation of the experiment. Guided by this finding, we implement a new econometric framework incorporating heterogeneous treatment effects and endogenous class size determination. We find that the effect of class size on test scores differs considerably across schools, with only a small fraction of schools having significant benefits from reduced class sizes. We discuss the challenges this poses for the intervention's scalability and conclude by analyzing targeted class-size interventions.
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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