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Central Exams as the "Currency" of School Systems: International Evidence on the Complementarity of School Autonomy and Central Exams
Woessmann, Ludger - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 46-56
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Stratified or Comprehensive? Some Economic Considerations on the design of secondary education
Brunello, Giorgio - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 7-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696485
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Quality of life in chronic conditions using patient-reported measures and biomarkers: A DEA analysis in type 1 diabetes
Borg, Sixten; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Eeg-Olofsson, Katarina; … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 31, pp. 1-17
Background: A chronic disease impacts a patient's daily life, with the burden of symptoms and managing the condition, and concerns of progression and disease complications. Such aspects are captured by Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROM), assessments of e.g. wellbeing. Patient-Reported...
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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
consideration of two measurement issues that have typically been overlooked in the literature: the implications of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282300
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Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts?
Tyler, John; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2008
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a …th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education … differences, and allows for a discussion of the policy challenges inherent in improving the postsecondary outcomes of dropouts. …
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The Gini Trade Index: What can we learn from a new trade indicator?
Cernat, Lucian - 2024
This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560170
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The human development index adjusted for efficient resource utilization
Arcelus, F. J.; Sharma, B.; Srinivasan, G. - 2005
The human development index (HDI) developed by the United Nations Development Programme is computed as the average of three equally weighted outcome measures: life expectancy (LI), educational attainment (EI) and income (WI). However, this computational process is independent of the resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284696
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Inequality in human development: An empirical assessment of 32 countries
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Smeeding, Timothy; … - 2009
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335419
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Inequality in human development: An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Ken; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2008
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281828
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Sustainable Nations: What do Aggregate Indicators tell us?
Pillarisetti, J. Ram; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2008
What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325664