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Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay : main drivers and policy implications
Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-28
, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student … that educational efficiency in Uruguayan high schools significantly dropped in nine percentage points between 2009 and 2012 …. In this vein, our findings also show positive effects on public schools’ efficiency of providing the responsibility in …
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Why Do Inequalities in 15-Year-Old Cognitive Skills Increased So Much in France?
Goussé, Marion; Le Donné, Noémie - 2015
In this paper, we analyse increasing inequalities in French students’ cognitive skills during the 2000 decade, as France is the European country that experienced the strongest rise in performance variance at PISA tests. In particular, French educational inequalities increased due to a decline...
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Decentralisation and School Autonomy Impact on the Quality of Education : The Case of Two MENA Countries
Escardibul Ferrá, Josep Oriol - 2015
education in two MENA countries (Jordan and Tunisia), by using the OECD PISA 2009 database. Results reveal that decentralisation … different results than others, while (public) ownership is positively significant only in Tunisia. However, private funding and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012149
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The colonial legacy of education : evidence from of Tunisia
Ben Salah, Mhamed; Chambru, Cédric; Fourati, Maleke - 2024 - Revised version, September 2024
This paper uses spatial variations in the enrolment rate of Tunisian pupils in 1931 to estimate the weight of colonial history on medium- and long-run educational attainment. We assemble a new dataset on the location of public primary schools and the number of pupils and teachers, together with...
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? : Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
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Home versus School Learning: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement
Lindahl, Mikael - 2001
I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school year and out of session during the summer. This seasonal feature of the schooling system makes it possible to control for unobservable pupil characteristics affecting both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262464
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Summer Learning and the Effect of Schooling: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Mikael - 2001
Using that schools are in session during the school year and out of session during the summer, it is possible to isolate the effect of schooling on learning. This natural experiment situation can also be used to see whether schooling compensates for disadvantageous social backgrounds. Using a...
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Education policy and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
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The impact of alternative grade configurations on student outcomes through middle and high school
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2011
We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. To identify the causal effect of structural school transitions, we use student fixed effects and instrument for middle...
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Country performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Henseke, Golo - 2009
This study seeks to explain country differences in the performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Hypotheses on the relationship between, on one hand, performance at the Olympiads and, on the other, population size and dynamics, economic resources, human capital, schooling quantity...
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