Why students of public and private schools in Costa Rica obtain different academic achievement?

In this paper we use the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition methodology, applied to the pisa 2012 database, in order to identify the causes of the differences in academic results between public and private Costa Rican schools. In order of importance, these are caused by differences in: a) family character...

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Main Authors: Gregorio Giménez, Geovanny Castro Aristizábal
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede México 2017-01-01
Series:Perfiles Latinoamericanos
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Online Access:http://perfilesla.flacso.edu.mx/index.php/perfilesla/article/view/841