A Distributional Analysis of Upper Secondary School Performance
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- John Cullinan & Kevin Denny & Darragh Flannery, 2018. "A Distributional Analysis of Upper Secondary School Performance," Working Papers 201806, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
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Secondary school performance; Distribution; Unconditional quantile regression; Ireland;JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - General
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2018-04-23 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2018-04-23 (Labour Economics)
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