%0 Journal Article
%A Aparicio, Juan
%A Crespo Cebada, Eva
%A Pedraja Chaparro, Francisco
%A Santín González, Daniel
%T Comparing school ownership performance using a pseudo-panel database: A Malmquist-type index approach
%D 2017
%@ 0377-2217
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18906
%X In this paper, we propose a different way of using the Malmquist index that allows us to further analyze the relative performance divergences between two groups of decision-making units (DMUs) over time when only a pseudo-panel database is available. To do this, we extend the Camanho and Dyson (2006) one-period Malmquist-type index (CDMI) for a pseudo-panel database with a new pseudo-panel Malmquist index (PPMI). To illustrate the methodology, we apply it to examine how the performance gap between public and private government-dependent secondary schools in the Basque Country (Spain) performed across three PISA waves (2006, 2009 and 2012). The results suggest that performance is persistently and significantly higher for private government-dependent schools than for public schools.
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