The question of class size continues to attract the attention of educational policymakers and
researchers alike. Australian politicians and their advisers, policy makers and political …

This paper investigates the effects of California's billion-dollar class-size-reduction program
on student achievement. It uses year-to-year differences in class size generated by variation …

This paper examines how maternal depression affects children's test scores and
socioemotional outcomes. An empirical challenge surrounding this research is to address …

This paper considers the effect of textbook funding on school-level test performance by
using a quasi-experimental setting in the United States. I consider a lawsuit in California that …

We review a large range of educational investments that might ensure more students
graduate from high school in California. We identify educational interventions for which there …

This paper sheds new light on general equilibrium responses to major education reforms,
focusing on a sorting mechanism likely to operate whenever a reform improves public …

Because classroom size reduction (CSR) and standards based testing were implemented at
the same time in California during the mid-1990s, it is difficult to isolate the effects of …

Schools in urban neighborhoods receive less funding, have less programming, and have
poorer infrastructure. Such disparities may impede academic outcomes among youth. This …

California was, and remains, the largest" experiment" in class-size reduction (CSR) in the
country's history. Its swee** program to reduce the state's classes in kindergarten through …

Social science research suggests that reducing class size has its largest effects on the
achievement of minority and inner-city chil dren during the first year of formal schooling. 1 …