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Autor Sicilia, Gabriela |
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The academic journals rankings are widely used for academic purposes, especially in the field of Economics. There are many procedures to construct academic journals rankings. Some of them are based on citation analysis while other are based on e[...]texto impreso
Although the presence of the endogeneity is frequently observed in economic production processes, it tends to be overlooked when practitioners apply data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this paper we deal with this issue in two ways. First, we pr[...]texto impreso
Several sociodemographic phenomena have changed family organization in Spain over the last few decades, where less structured forms than the traditional nuclear family have gained in importance. In view of the importance of children’s and adoles[...]texto impreso
The non-compulsory and non-free of charge character of preschool education level before 3 years old in Spain raises some doubts about the exogenous nature of this variable. This article provides new evidence about the impact of preschool years o[...]texto impreso
La presente Tesis Doctoral contribuye, teórica y empíricamente, a entender hasta qué punto el problema de endogeneidad, uno de los principales problemas observado frecuentemente en los procesos de producción educativos, afecta a la estimación de[...]texto impreso
The aim of this research is to explore the existence of inefficient behaviors in public high schools in Uruguay and identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. In the first stage, we[...]texto impreso
Cordero, José Manuel ; Polo, Cristina ; Santín González, Daniel ; Sicilia, Gabriela | Wiley-Blackwell | 2016The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of the conditional nonparametric approach with several traditional nonparametric methods to incorporate the effect of exogenous or environmental variables into the estimation of efficiency meas[...]texto impreso
Endogeneity, and the distortions on the estimation of economic models that it causes, is a usual problem in the econometrics literature. Although non-parametric methods like Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) are among the most used techniques for [...]texto impreso
This research contributes to the ongoing debate about differences in teachers’ performance. We introduce a new methodology that combines production frontier and impact evaluation insights that allows using DEA as an identification strategy of a [...]