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DECOMPOSING THE GAP IN SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN FINLAND AND ROMANIA '" SOME METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Alina, Botezat - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 165-171
This paper analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Using PISA data for Finland … and Romania, we focus on the drawbacks of the detailed decomposition, when the explanatory variables are categorial. From … the best of our knowledge, this kind of analysis is performed for the first time using PISA data.We show that, using …
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Labour Market Matters - November 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Individuals who enter the labour market with relatively low levels of education often find that they lack the necessary human capital and credentials needed to adapt to the rapidly changing labour market in Canada. The severe recession of the early 1980s and early 1990s coupled with the...
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Publicly finance schools productivity comparison for Basque Country through a new Educational Malmquist index approach.
Cebada, Eva Crespo; González, Daniel Santín; … - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
a representative sample in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, 2006 and 2009. PISA includes …
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A Simple Ordered Data Estimator For Inverse Density Weighted Functions
Lewbel, Arthur; Schennach, Susanne M. - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003
We consider estimation of means of functions that are scaled by an unknown density, or equivalently, integrals of conditional expectations. The "ordered data" estimator we provide is root n consistent, asymptotically normal, and is numerically extremely simple, involving little more than...
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Identification and N-consistent estimation of a nonlinear panel data model with correlated unobserved effects
Gayle, Wayne-Roy - In: Journal of Econometrics 175 (2013) 2, pp. 71-83
This paper investigates identification and root-n-consistent estimation of a class of single-index panel data models in which the link function is unknown, the unobserved individual effects may be correlated with all the explanatory variables, and all the explanatory variables may be...
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Is '3+2' Equal to 4? University Reform and Student Academic Performance in Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano; BROCCOLINI, … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2006
In 2001 a '3+2' (unitary two-tier) university system was introduced in Italy where a 3-year First Level degree followed by a 2-year Second Level degree replaced a one-tier system where the 'old' degree (Laurea) duration varied between a minimum of four (e.g. economics) and a maximum of six...
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COLLEGE CHOICE AND EARNINGS AMONG UNIVERSITY GRADUATES IN SWEDEN
Eliasson, Kent - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
This thesis consists of three papers that examine college choice and earnings among university graduates in Sweden. <p> Paper [I] analyzes how geographical accessibility to higher education affects university enrollment decisions in Sweden. The empirical findings show that the probability of...</p>
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How Robust is the Evidence on the Returns to College Choice? Results Using Swedish Administrative Data
Eliasson, Kent - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
We estimate the causal effect on earnings of graduating from old universities rather than new universities/university colleges. The study is based on Swedish administrative data that is comparatively rich in terms of school grades, parental characteristics and other attributes. Despite the more...
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Semiparametric Decomposition of the Gender Achievement Gap: An Application for Turkey
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2012
Using the data from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this study sheds light on the … gender gap in mathematics and science achievement of 15-year-olds in Turkey. We apply a semiparametric Oaxaca-Blinder (OB …) decomposition to investigate the gap. This technique relaxes the parametric assumptions of the standard OB decomposition, accounts …
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The education of economists in Colombia: Quality differences and its determinants
Espinel, Jaime Andrés Sarmiento; Arias, Adriana … - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2015
Colombia, we apply the DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) decomposition technique to estimate what would be the distribution …
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