Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 114 (2) , 533-575
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556061
Abstract
The twelfth century rabbinic scholar Maimonides proposed a maximum class size of 40. This same maximum induces a nonlinear and nonmonotonic relationsKeywords
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