Measuring school value added with administrative data: The problem of missing variables

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-278

  Dearden, Lorraine ^a,b   Miranda, Alfonso ^a   Rabe Hesketh, Sophia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Contextual value added; Informative sample selection; Missing covariates

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051657111     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: 14755890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2011.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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