A multilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques

Claudio Thieme; Diego Prior; Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Economics of Education Review Vol. 32, No. 1 (February 2013) pp. 104–121

We propose a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Our estimation considers idiosyncratic...

Language: English