what would be the optimal education policy to improve student test score outcomes

Problem Set 4-Chapter 8 & 9

1) Use schooling data to answer the following questions (see also below for data

dictionary).

a) Run a regression of math test scores on student’s gender, family size, class size, teacher’s gender and

fraction of LEP (limited English proficiency) students in the school. Interpret the coefficient estimates.

b) Based on your findings from part (a), what would be the optimal education policy to improve student test score outcomes.

Gender (Dummy): 1 for female student 2 for male student

family size (continuous): family size of the student

test (continuous): test scores-outcome variable

classsize (continuous): class size

teacher gender (dummy): 1 for female teacher 2 for female teacher

lep (continuous): fraction of students in the school who are limited English proficiency