On the Determinants of Scholastic Performance in Five Asian Countries
Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques | March 2013
Abstract
This paper takes an efficiency analysis perspective to analyze, on the basis of the data of the 2009 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, the determinants of scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Thailand). In the first stage, the huge amount of information available in the PISA survey on the production of education is aggregated via the use of correspondence analysis. To measure efficiency, a stochastic production frontier approach is then adopted and efficiency is estimated at the individual (student) level. Finally, the factors affecting this efficiency are analyzed via an ordinary least squares regression and, using the so-called Shapley decomposition, an attempt is made to determine the exact impact on efficiency of the various explanatory variables that were introduced.
Citation
Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques. 2013. On the Determinants of Scholastic Performance in Five Asian Countries. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2096. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Vocational Education
Technical Education
Investment In Education
Asian Development Bank
Economic development
Skills Development
Development
Economic development
Training programs
Vocational training
Training methods
Economic growth
Training methods
Communication in technical education
Vocational school students
Partnership
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