Maimonides' Rule Redux

被引：29

作者：

Angrist, Joshua D. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Lavy, Victor ^{[3
,4
,5
]}

Leder-Luis, Jetson ^{[1
]}

Shany, Adi ^{[6
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Econ, 50 Mem Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA

[2] IZA, Bonn, Germany

[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] Univ Warwick, Dept Econ, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England

[5] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Econ, Jerusalem, Israel

[6] Tel Aviv Univ, Coller Sch Management, IL-6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel

来源：

AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW-INSIGHTS | 2019年 / 1卷 / 03期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1257/aeri.20180120

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

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 socio-economic 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.

引用

页码：309 / 324

页数：16

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