Class size, student performance and Tiebout bias

Uwe Jirjahn, Christian Pfeifer and Georgi Tsertsvadze

If students tend to choose instructors with high teaching ability, a negative link between class size and student performance may remain obscured until this kind of sorting has been taken into account. Using data from student evaluation surveys, we confirm that it is crucial to control for instructor fixed effects.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Jirjahn, Uwe ; Pfeifer, Christian ; Tsertsvadze, Georgi
Published in:	Applied economics letters. - Abingdon : Routledge, ISSN 1350-4851, ZDB-ID 1181036-1. - Vol. 16.2009, 10/12, p. 1049-1052
Subject:	Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Schüler \| Pupils \| Studierende \| Students \| Schule \| School
Description of contents:	Description [fox.leuphana.de]

Extent:	4 S
Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Notes:	Parallel als Online-Ausg. erschienen unter der Adresse http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504850701335285 Literaturverz. S. 1052
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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