Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 104-121
We propose a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Our estimation considers idiosyncratic variables at the school, class, and student levels. Our...