Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement

Angrist, J. D., & Lavy, V. (1999). Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement. The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1999

DOI

10.1162/003355399556061

Link

https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556061

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Natural Experiment
  • Epidemiology and public health — Mendelian randomization uses the random allocation of genotype at conception as an instrument for an exposure; jurisdictional policy variation and the lineage back to Snow's 1854 Broad Street pump supply found assignment where trials are impossible. Political science — close-election regression discontinuity, random ballot order, and term-limit cutoffs furnish as-if-random treatment around an administrative threshold. Education research — school-assignment lotteries, grade-retention cutoffs, and class-size rules (Maimonides' rule) supply the exogenous variation in schooling inputs.

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