An assessment of pupil and school performance in public primary education in Uruguay
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Keywords
educational performance; multilevel metafrontier approach; primary education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2021-10-04 (Education)
- NEP-EFF-2021-10-04 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-URE-2021-10-04 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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