The Effects of School Class Size on Length of Post-Compulsory Education: Some Cost-Benefit Analysis
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class size; regression discontinuity; sibling differences;All these keywords.
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- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2005-05-29 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2005-05-29 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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