TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gaggero, Alessio
AU  - Haile, Getinet Astatike
        TI  - Does Class Size Matter in Postgraduate Education?
        PY  - 2019/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12628
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12628
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - grades
KW  - class size
KW  - higher education
KW  - RDD
        ER  -