%0 Report
        %A Gaggero, Alessio
%A Haile, Getinet Astatike
        %T Does Class Size Matter in Postgraduate Education?
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12628
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12628
        %X The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed Effects models on the population of postgraduate candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design (RDD). We find that class size does impact grades adversely overall; and the policy aimed at reducing class size impacts grades favourably. Our findings are robust to alternative specifications as well as being supported by the validity tests we conducted.
        %K grades
%K class size
%K higher education
%K RDD