Analysis of group performance with categorical data when agents are heterogeneous: the evaluation of scholastic performance in the OECD
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Título: | Analysis of group performance with categorical data when agents are heterogeneous: the evaluation of scholastic performance in the OECD |
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Autor/es: | Herrero, Carmen | Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso | Villar Notario, Antonio |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Análisis Económico |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Palabras clave: | Group performance | Fifteen-year-old students | Scholastic performance | Heterogeneity | Categorical data | Inverse probability weighting |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Fecha de publicación: | 5-mar-2014 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Economics of Education Review. 2014, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 March 2014. doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.02.001 |
Resumen: | This paper analyses the evaluation of the relative performance of a set of groups when their outcomes are defined in terms of categorical data and the groups’ members are heterogeneous. This type of problem has been dealt with in Herrero and Villar (2013) for the case of a homogenous population. Here we expand their model controlling for heterogeneity by means of inverse probability weighting techniques. We apply this extended model to the analysis of the scholastic perfomance of fifteen-year-old students in the OECD countries, using the data in the PISA. We evaluate the relative performance of the different countries out of the distribution of the students’ achievements across the different levels of competence, controlling by the students’ characteristics (explanatory variables regarding schooling and family environment). We find that differences in mathematical and reading abilities across OECD countries would lower by between 40% and 50% if the students’ characteristics would be those for the OECD average. |
Patrocinador/es: | This paper was written while the first author was visiting the IAE, under the Salvador de Madariaga project PR2010-0124. This paper is framed within the projects SEJ2007-62656, SEJ-6882/ECON and ECO2010-21706. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/36016 |
ISSN: | 0272-7757 (Print) | 1873-7382 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.02.001 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.02.001 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - Análisis Económico - Artículos de Revistas |
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