Economic Research and Education Policy: Project STAR and Class Size Reduction
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Keywords
Class size; Project STAR; randomized controlled trials; field experiments; internal validity; external validity; modern experimentalist paradigm;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C54 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Quantitative Policy Modeling
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2017-01-08 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2017-01-08 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2017-01-08 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
- NEP-URE-2017-01-08 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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