School Effectiveness Is a Perennial Question in the Literature of the Economics of Education. in This Paper, We Used a Two-Way Nested-Error Component Educational Production Function Model to Evaluate the Student School Achievement. As for Observable Factors, the Empirical Results Suggest That...

Different Functional Forms Are Proposed and Applied in the Context of Educational Production Functions. Three Different Specifications - the Linerar, Logit and Inverse Power Transformation (Ipt) - Are Used to Explain First Grade Students' Results to a Mathematics Achievement Test. with Ipt...

This Paper Shows That Rindskopf's Parameterization Technique Is Not an Acceptable Solution to the Heywood Problem, Especially, If One Is Interested in Standard Errors and T-Statistics for the Parameter Estimates of a Linear Structural Model. Simple Alternative Solutions Are Proposed and...