School Effectiveness Is a Perennial Question in the Literature of the Economics of Education. in This Paper, We Used a Two-Way Nested-Error Component Educational Production Function Model to Evaluate the Student School Achievement. As for Observable Factors, the Empirical Results Suggest That...

We Show That a Box-Cox Transformation on the Dependent Variable of Linear Regression Models Is Invariant to Power Transformations of That Variable Even Without the Presence of a Regression Constant And, Consequently, Can Sometimes Be Interpreted As a Simple Power Transformation the Estimation of...

This Paper Gives Non-Uniform Bounds on the Tail Areas of the Permutation Distribution of the Usual Student's T Statistic When the Observations Are Independent with Symmetric Distributions. As Opposed to Uniform Bounds, Non-Uniform Bounds Depend on the Observed Sample. It Is Shown That the...

Sata Envelopment Analysis (DEA) of efficiency is highly sensitive to the level of aggregation. Generally as the number of inputs and outputs increase, differences in measured relative efficiency across firms decrease. This paper advocates using the EKS index number formula to aggreagte inputs...