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A comparative analysis of pupils’ and teachers’ financial competencies in five European countries KU Leuven
Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis KU Leuven
In efficiency studies, inputs and outputs are often noisy measures, especially when education data is used. This article complements the conditional efficiency model by correcting for bias within conditional draws, using the m out of n bootstrap procedure. With a unique panel dataset, we estimate managerial efficiency, which accounts for nondiscretionary variables, and explain efficiency differentials of adult education programs in Flanders. Our ...
Assessing regional performance against early school leaving in Spain KU Leuven
As early school leaving has been shown to have a substantial impact on later life outcomes, it has received considerable attention in policy debates. However, national and regional differences in early school leaving are not necessarily due to differences in policymaking but might be the consequence of underlying differences in the economic and social structure of a region. This paper develops a procedure to account for regional differences in ...
Service Level Provision in Municipalities: A Flexible Directional Distance Composite Indicator KU Leuven
With increasing decentralization of public activities to the municipalities, it has become imperative to deploy an enhanced service provision analysis at the local level. This paper suggests the innovative use of a composite indicator to measure the multidimensional aspects of the local public provision comprising of several commonly administered municipal tasks. We propose a robust conditional version of a directional distance composite ...