Estimating an educational production function for five countries of Latin America on the basis of the PISA data

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 245-262

  Deutsch, Joseph ^a   Dumas, Audrey ^b   Silber, Jacques ^a,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c CEPS/INSTEAD ^*  (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Corrected ordinary least squares; Correspondence analysis; Educational production function; Mexico; PISA data; Shapley value; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD;

BRAZIL; CHILE; COLOMBIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; URUGUAY;

EID: 84882930829     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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