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Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary school system and uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant …
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High student dropout rates are a longstanding issue in Italian universities. University dropouts may be explained by … university remote branches might help in reducing dropouts. …
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impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical. Basic observations: We would presume that school … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life … of pupils and students in their formative years. Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math …
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This article analyses the redistributive efficiency of public spending and taxation in a panel of both advanced and developing economies during the last three decades (1984-2012). In order to explore how redistribution is achieved through fiscal policies, a two-stage approach is applied. First,...
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In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis method. This approach allows us to perform a sensitivity analysis of the efficiency scores at regional level, in which human capital is included...
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include the presence of technical inefficiency, measurement error, misspecification of the production function (for the GA and … that the deterministic approaches perform adequately even under conditions of (modest) measurement error and when … measurement error becomes larger, the accuracy of all approaches (including stochastic approaches) deteriorates rapidly, to the …
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This paper examines the relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic efficiency. For this reason conditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) estimators alongside with nonparametric regressions are applied in a sample of 25 European countries for the year 2010. Our results...
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An extended quality-driven efficiency-adjusted data envelopment analysis (QE-DEA) method is developed to measure the performance of service units. Performance is measured based on efficiency and users’ satisfaction. The extended QE-DEA method identifies as benchmarks only units that are...
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