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¿Deberían tener las universidades total autonomía en la selección del profesorado?
Rosselló, Joan - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2006
En este artículo analizamos qué criterios debería seguir una administración a la hora de distribuir recursos para la contratación de nuevo profesorado con el objetivo de maximizar el output científico de las universidades. También analizamos qué sucede con la producción científica del...
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Efficiency of the scientific production in Colombian universities
Bayona-Rodríguez, Hernando; Bedoya, Juan Guillermo; … - 2018
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Cost efficiency analysis of Swedish financial enterprises: An empirical investigation
Akkaya, Onur - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 22 (2016) 1, pp. 31-37
In this paper, our research question that could analyze how efficiency in Swedish financial enterprises has changed …) efficiency estimators. We predict cost function by employing panel stochastic frontier approach. These allow us to construct cost … efficiency. …
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Production and stochastic efficiency: An application to the Colombian footwear and leather industry
Marín, Jorge Barrientos; Tobón, David; Gutiérrez, Alderid - In: Lecturas de Economía (2009) 70, pp. 165-190
In this paper, we characterize and study the efficiency of a representative set of firms in the leather and footwear …
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How Profitable is Higher Education in Colombia?
Hernández, Gustavo - In: Lecturas de Economía (2010) 73, pp. 181-214
This paper examines the education premium for graduate students in Colombia, focusing on the screening hypothesis which is tested via sheepskin effects. A new dataset for higher education is constructed using administrative records of educational institutions and social security information. The...
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Características del plantel y calidad de la educación en Bogotá
Marín, Jorge Hugo Barrientos - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas - 2001
This paper studies the effects of school attributes on test scores in the city of Bogotá. The paper shows, first, that both teacher-pupil ratios and teacher education are positively correlated with higher test scores, and, next, that these associations are circumscribed to private schools. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544150
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Calidad de la educación y rendimiento académico en Bogotá
Marín, Jorge Hugo Barrientos - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas - 2001
This paper examines the effects of family background and school characteristics on standardized test results. We use the ICFES test: the Colombian equivalent to the American SAT. The paper reaches three main conclusions. First, parental schooling has a substantial effect on test results. Second,...
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Quality of Public Education and Academic Achievement in Medellín, 2004-2006. An Application of Interquartile Regression
Marín, Jorge Barrientos - In: Lecturas de Economía (2008) 68, pp. 121-144
In this paper we study the effect of family and school background on students' academic performance, who attended public schools in Medellín. Two approaches are implemented in this work. Firstly, we investigate the effect of covariates on different segments of scores' distribution by quantile...
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Evaluación de la gestión privada del servicio público educativo en Medellín
Barrientos, Jorge; Gallego, Paul Rios - In: Lecturas de Economía (2007) 66, pp. 147-172
in 2002 the local government of Medellin started a program for school-age children who were not covered by the educational public system. The program, called Concession Schools, was designed to provide private educational management by means of public resources where public supply was reduced....
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Eficiencia de las sociedades musicales de la Comunidad Valenciana
Rausell Koster, Pau; Coll-Serrano, Vicente; Abeledo … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 117-132
Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a … non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian … territoriality. The achieved results show that the average efficiency of the Musical Societies stands at 72.66% and points out to the …
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