Performance Assessment of Portuguese Secondary Schools
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Data Envelopment Analysis; Secondary Schools.;JEL classification:
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2007-06-02 (Education)
- NEP-EFF-2007-06-02 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HRM-2007-06-02 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-URE-2007-06-02 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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