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DECOMPOSING THE GAP IN SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN FINLAND AND ROMANIA '" SOME METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Alina, Botezat - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 2, pp. 165-171
This paper analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Using PISA data for Finland … and Romania, we focus on the drawbacks of the detailed decomposition, when the explanatory variables are categorial. From … the best of our knowledge, this kind of analysis is performed for the first time using PISA data.We show that, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617381
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Educational performance gaps in Eastern Europe
Botezat, Alina; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - In: The economics of transition 21 (2013) 4, pp. 731-756
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Labour Market Matters - November 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Individuals who enter the labour market with relatively low levels of education often find that they lack the necessary human capital and credentials needed to adapt to the rapidly changing labour market in Canada. The severe recession of the early 1980s and early 1990s coupled with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184452
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Publicly finance schools productivity comparison for Basque Country through a new Educational Malmquist index approach.
Cebada, Eva Crespo; González, Daniel Santín; … - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
a representative sample in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, 2006 and 2009. PISA includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859759
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Gender Gaps in PISA Test Scores: The Impact of Social Norms and the Mother's Transmission of Role Attitudes
González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646293
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Gender gaps in PISA test scores: The impact of social norms and the mother's transmission of role attitudes
González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - 2012
countries. In particular, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted by the OECD over the past ten … across regions within the same country are crucial determinants in understanding gender differences in PISA 2009 test scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282145
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Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: Main drivers and policy implications
Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: Latin American Economic Review 24 (2015) 1, pp. 1-28
identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. In the first stage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994301
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Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay : main drivers and policy implications
Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-28
identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. In the first stage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885536
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Identification and N-consistent estimation of a nonlinear panel data model with correlated unobserved effects
Gayle, Wayne-Roy - In: Journal of Econometrics 175 (2013) 2, pp. 71-83
This paper investigates identification and root-n-consistent estimation of a class of single-index panel data models in which the link function is unknown, the unobserved individual effects may be correlated with all the explanatory variables, and all the explanatory variables may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666083
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A Simple Ordered Data Estimator For Inverse Density Weighted Functions
Lewbel, Arthur; Schennach, Susanne M. - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003
We consider estimation of means of functions that are scaled by an unknown density, or equivalently, integrals of conditional expectations. The "ordered data" estimator we provide is root n consistent, asymptotically normal, and is numerically extremely simple, involving little more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968822