Abstract
The literature states that an unfavourable environment negatively affects students’ performance. However, there is evidence showing that low socio-economic status does not always have a negative influence on students’ outcomes. To shed some light on this issue, we develop a conditional order-m efficiency estimation. The results confirm that the environment impacts differently among schools and unfavourable socio-economic background does not always imply a negative influence.
Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to Professor José Manuel Cordero and the anonymous referee for their valuable suggestions and comments.
Notes
1 Following Simar (Citation2003), the level of repetitions (B = 200) seems to be a reasonable choice.
2 Following Daraio and Simar (Citation2005), we use the value of m for which the decrease in super-efficient observations stabilizes (m = 100).
3 Methodological procedure and equations are not shown in this article due to space restrictions.
4 See this paper for a comprehensive explanation.