This paper consists of the application of the Hierarchical lineal model (multilevel methodology) which takes in consideration the interaction between individual and aggregated variables. It is intented to measure eterminants of student performance in their last year of school in three...

This research examines the effects of private schools on public school’s quality. A premise of private school initiatives has been that these schools have direct benefits for students attending these schools and indirect benefits for other students by creating competition for public schools to...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the multilevel methodology in order to estimate the effect of primary care physician in the pharmaceutical expenditure of the patient. We use individual data from population that is part of the Spanish public health system in the Autonomous Community of...

In the present paper was to assess the performance of soybean cultivars different environments or planting dates. The variable of interest was performance dry matter per hectare of these cultivars with different maturity groups. We compare two statistical techniques often used for this data:...

In spatial econometrics, it is customary to specify a weighting matrix, the so-called W matrix. The decision is important because the choice of W matrix determines the rest of the analysis. However, the procedure is not well defined and, usually, reflects the priors of the user. In the paper, we...

Testing for the assumption of independence between spatial variables is an important first step in spatial conometrics. Usually the researchers use the bivariate generalization of the Moran’s statistic, specifying a spatial matrix a priori. This test is applicable only to detect linear...

Spatial econometrics is a relatively young branch econometric but with a great growth in the last decades. The complexity of spatial analysis and the estimation of spatial models has been the major obstacle for applied studies. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the diffusion of spatial...

The growing availability of Geo-referenced information needs particular econometric tools such as those developed by Spatial Econometrics. This econometric branch is dedicated to the analysis of heterogeneity and spatial dependence in regression models. In this paper, I review the most...

This paper presents a collection of spatial econometrics tools to detect global and local spatial dependence. These tools are used to analyze the spatial structure of the unemployment rate in Argentina in Census 2001 and 2010. Detailed study enables identification and comparison of persistent...

In this paper we show the capacity of a new nonparametric test based on entropy and symbolic dynamics to deal with the detection of spatial causality. The good performance of the new test in to detect causal relationships is considered by numerical experiments, and through an empirical...