Babcock, Philip; Bedard, Kelly; Schulte, Jennifer - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 3, pp. 347-354
Much of the debate over the allocation of education resources focuses on the alleged benefits of smallness—of classroom or school—and is based on evidence from small-scale studies. This paper reframes the question in terms of cohort size. Using national data, we find that a 10% increase in...