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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140068
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062186
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887040
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Determinants of student achievements in the primary education of Paraguay
Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2009
The idea that schooling scores depend on a combination of family background characteristics, ability and school (institutional) variables is quite clear. Regarding the issue of intergenerational transmission of inequality in the educational system, the most important question would be if and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947928
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Education policy and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela (contributor);  … - 2005
background ; student performance ; tracking ; pre-school ; efficiency-equity tradeoff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003302847
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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. Based on an instrumental variable estimation strategy, we find that students moving from elementary to middle school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523501
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Does additional spending help urban schools? : an evaluation using boundary discontinuities
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2012
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530341
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240871