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...

This Paper Shows That Rindskopf's Parameterization Technique Is Not an Acceptable Solution to the Heywood Problem, Especially, If One Is Interested in Standard Errors and T-Statistics for the Parameter Estimates of a Linear Structural Model. Simple Alternative Solutions Are Proposed and...

In the Economics of Schooling Literature, Input Substitutions Have Been Identified As the Major Difficulty to Assess School and Teacher Effectiveness. in This Paper We Examine Whether Teachers' Grading Practices Can Improve Students Academic Achievement by Reducing These Input Substitutions. We...

Previous studies on the determinants of the choice of college major have assumed a constant probability of sucess across majors or a constant earnings streamacross majors. Our model disregards these two restrictive assumptions in computing an expected earnings variable to explain the probability...