Fair ranking of teachers

Empirical Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 411-431

  Jürges, Hendrik ^a   Schneider, Kerstin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accountability; Fair ranking; Hausman Taylor estimator; Stochastic frontier; Teacher quality

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC THEORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; RANKING; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 34249878205     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-006-0112-3     Document Type: Article

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