David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

discussion of class size, see Eric
Hanushek, The Evidence on Class Size
(University of Rochester Press, 1998);
Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth,
Schoolhouses, Courthouses and
Statehouses: Solving the Funding-
Achievement Puzzle in America’s
Public Schools (Princeton University
Press, 2009), 272; and Ludger
Wössmann and Martin R. West, “Class-
Size Effects in School Systems Around
the World: Evidence from Between-
Grade Variation in TIMSS,” European
Economic Review (March 26, 2002).
For studies of money and happiness,
see Daniel Kahneman and Angus
Deaton, “High Income Improves
Evaluation of Life but Not Emotional