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Public school efficiency using data envelopment analysis : an empirical application for Brazil
Raposo, Isabel Pessoa de Arruda; Menezes, Tatiane; … - 2011
This paper studies the educational efficiency as determined only by the variables directly controlled by the school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529486
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School reforms and pupil performance
Eyles, Andrew; Hupkau, Claudia; Machin, Stephen - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 9-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703395
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Teaching practices and cognitive skills
Bietenbeck, Jan - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 143-153
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299860
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Impact of school quality on educational attainment : evidence from Finnish high schools
Kortelainen, Mika; Pääkkönen, Jenni; Pursiainen, Heikki - 2014
We analyze differences in school quality using a comprehensive panel data set covering all upper secondary school … graduates in Finland during the years 2002-2013. School quality is defined as the effect of the school on matriculation exam … (2013) we are able to measure both cross-sectional differences in school quality and the persistence of these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492710
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School quality and the gender gap in educational achievement
Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 289-295
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011699951
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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021
argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332257
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Decomposing the rural-urban differential in student achievement in Colombia using PISA microdata
Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan Carlos; Nieto, Sandra - 2012
characteristics more than to school characteristics. From a policy perspective, the obtained evidence support actions addressed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515651
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Structural changes and convergence in EU and in Adriatic-Balkans region
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2011
Coming from standard economic growth theory and empirical evidences, we concentrated on the convergence process as a result of structural changes in economy. We investigate the differences among countries in EU in terms of the share in total economy of main sectors. Then, based on the spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548145
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Schools and safety : an overview of different perspectives
Kranjec, Antonija; Antonić, Jelena Jardas; Prudky, Ivan - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602540
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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth
Noseleit, Florian - 2011
The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548154