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Class Size and Student Achievement.
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Kingdon and Kathryn Graddy for helpful comments and suggestions. Also I would like to thank Josh Angrist for a useful discussion of the general approach taken in this paper. However, any remaining errors and omissions are mine. Corresponding
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science in the Public Interest
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1529-1006,1539-6053
DOI: 10.1111/1529-1006.003