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Out-Of-Sample Predictions Of Access To Higher Education And School Value-Added

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  • Brendan Houng

    (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, the University of Melbourne)

  • Moshe Justman

    (BGU)

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  • Brendan Houng & Moshe Justman, 2015. "Out-Of-Sample Predictions Of Access To Higher Education And School Value-Added," Working Papers 1511, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Access to higher education; equal opportunity; standardized tests; longitudinal analysis; predicting educational achievement; school effects; NAPLAN; ATAR; VCE; Victoria; Australia;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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