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McEwan, Patrick J. – Economics of Education Review, 2013
Chile operates one of the oldest and largest school feeding programs in Latin America, targeting higher-calorie meals to relatively poorer schools. This paper evaluates the impact of higher-calorie meals on the education outcomes of public, rural schools and their students. It applies a regression-discontinuity design to administrative data,…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Enrollment, Foreign Countries, Nutrition
Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili – Economics of Education Review, 2013
We propose a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Our estimation considers idiosyncratic variables at the school, class, and student levels. Our model is applied to a sample of students in fourth…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Nonparametric Statistics, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Elementary School Students