Naming and shaming in a 'fair' way. On disentangling the influence of policy in observed outcomes

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 767-787

  Cabus, Sofie J ^a   De Witte, Kristof ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Naming and shaming; Panel data model; School dropout

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865166413     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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