Measuring educational efficiency at student level with parametric stochastic distance functions: An application to Spanish PISA results

Education Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-49

  Perelman, Sergio ^a   Santin, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distance function; Educational efficiency; Public schools; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OECD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; STUDENT;

SPAIN;

EID: 78951494568     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: 14695782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645290802470475     Document Type: Article

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