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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector … efficiency in the provision of education, the paper develops a set of comparable indicators which reflect international … differences in the levels of efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector both within and among countries. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730631
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert; Joumard, Isabelle; … - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445903
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Evaluation of Upper Secondary Schools on efficiency and productivity change in 2016-2019 : empirical evidence from schools in the region in Central Greece
Margaritis, Stylianos Gr. - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 71 (2021) 3/4, pp. 101-121
The study investigates the relative efficiency and productivity change of Upper Secondary Schools in the region of … DEA output-oriented and Malmquist analysis. Empirical analysis reveals that few are efficient and most are inefficient … . The efficiency under constant returns to scale varies in interval [0.666-1.000] and under variable returns to scale in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169373
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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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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/10010282333
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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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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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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391650
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The effects of early childhood intervention on child development and early skill formation : evidence from a randomized experiment
Sandner, Malte - 2012
This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children in home visited families perform significantly better than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665017
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Effects of early childhood intervention on maternal employment, fertility and well-being : evidence from a randomized controlled trail
Sandner, Malte - 2013
This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239738