Estimating Treatment Effects from Contaminated Multi-Period Education Experiments: The Dynamic Impacts of Class Size Reductions

We wish to thank seminar participants at Harvard University, McGill University, NBER Economics of Education Fall 2003 meetings, New York University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Penn State University, Queen's University, Simon Fraser University, University of Calgary, University of California - Riverside, University of Florida, Université Laval, Economics and Education Development Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, ZEW 3rd Conference on Policy Evaluation, 2008 SOLE meetings, 2006 Target Conference, 2005 CEA meetings and the 2004 NASM of the Econometric Society for comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Petra Todd for helpful discussions and encouragement at the initial stages of this project. We would also like to thank Alan Krueger for generously providing a subset of the data used in the study. Lehrer wishes to thank SSHRC for research support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.