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Contemporary economic perspectives in education /
Efficiency and effectiveness in 'education economics'. Economists are well placed to study education. They are intrinsically interested in (public) spending. They want to examine whether resources are spent in an effective (i.e., doing the right things) and efficient (i.e., doing things ri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
©2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Chapter 1; Systematic Reviews in Education Research: When Do Effect Studies Provide Evidence?; 1. Introduction; 2. First order conditions; 3. Second order conditions; 4. Third order conditions; 5. Applying the Inclusion Criteria in Practice; 6. Concluding remarks; Appendix A. Inclusion criteria used in review articles in the Review of Education, edition 2010; Chapter 2; Selection Bias in Educational Issues and the Use of Heckman's Sample Selection Model; 1. Introduction; 2. Selection bias and causality; 3. Heckman's sample selection model.
- 4. The sample selection model in educational research5. Conclusion; Chapter 3; The Causal Effect of Single-Sex Education versus Coeducation on Motivation and Educational Attainments. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Secondary Education; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review; 3. Flemish education system; 4. Data and Experiment; 5. Quantitative analysis; 6. Qualitative analysis; 7. Conclusion and policy recommendations; Chapter 4; Benchmarking and Operational Management: an Application of Frontier Analysis to Dutch Secondary Education; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Data.
- 4. Results5. Conclusions; Chapter 5; Schools' Efficiency and Equity: Evidence from a Stochastic Frontier Approach with Translog Specification; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology and data; 3. Results and discussion; Appendix A; Chapter 6; Do Nurses React to Inter-Industry Wage Differentials?
- Evidence of Nursing Graduates in the Netherlands; 1. Introduction; 2. Wage differentials and job-related skills in the literature; 3. The life sciences and health industry in the Netherlands; 4. Conceptual framework; 5. Empirical strategy; 6. Data; 7. Descriptive statistics; 8. Results.