end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of selfproductivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …

end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … expenditure and child fixed effect estimation that controls for the endogeneity of past skills. The persistence in cognitive …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

functions typically require. This chapter develops and explores the estimation of school efficiency using school-level cost … consider ways in which schools and school districts can use their resources effectively. Although much of the research linking … considerable appeal for the investigation of school performance and efficiency. Perhaps most important is that cost functions can …