What explains the performance of students in a heterogeneous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2401-2412

  de Witte, Kristof ^a,b   Kortelainen, Mika ^c,d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus Finland   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bootstrap; education; generalized kernel function; nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; BOOTSTRAPPING; EDUCATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; OECD; STUDENT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84859742478     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.665602     Document Type: Article

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