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Angrist, Joshua D., Lavy, Victor, Leder-Luis, Jetson and Shany, Adi (2019) Maimonides rule redux. American Economic Review : Insights , 1 (3). pp. 309-324. doi:10.1257/aeri.20180120
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20180120
Abstract
We use Maimonides' rule as an instrument for class size in large Israeli samples from 2002–2011. In contrast with Angrist and Lavy (1999), newer estimates show no evidence of class size effects. The new data also reveal enrollment manipulation near Maimonides cutoffs. A modified rule that uses birthdays to impute enrollment circumvents manipulation while still generating precisely estimated zeros. In both old and new data, Maimonides' rule is unrelated to socioeconomic characteristics conditional on a few controls. Enrollment manipulation therefore appears to be innocuous. We briefly discuss possible explanations for the disappearance of Israeli class size effects since the early 1990s.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Class size -- Matematical models -- Ísrael, Elementary school -- Ísrael | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | American Economic Review : Insights | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | American Economic Association | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0002-8282 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 309-324 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1257/aeri.20180120 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
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| Copyright Holders: | AEA | ||||||||||||
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