Exploring educational efficiency divergences across Spanish regions in pisa 2006

Revista de Economia Aplicada

Volumn 19, Issue 57, 2011, Pages 117-145

  Ferrera, José Manuel Cordero ^a   Cebada, Eva Crespo ^a   Chaparro, Francisco Pedraja ^a   González, Daniel Santín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Education; Efficiency; H52; I21; Parametric distance function jel classification: C14

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855732772     PISSN: 1133455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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