An application of the production function approach in education by Maradona, Gustavo, Calderón, Mónica

“…The estimated model, based on a translogarithmic technology to capture second-order relationships, corroborates the evidence from the literature: although it is a controversial approach in terms of methodologies used and expected results, there is agreement that the most significant factor in explaining students' academic achievement is socio-economic status. However, without proposing prescriptions for the use of specific inputs, the results of the model suggest important space for educational decision-makers at decentralised levels.…”
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Changes in the income differentiation of the population of Greater Cordoba between 1992 and 2000 according to gender and level of schooling by Gertel, Héctor R., Giuliodori, Roberto F., Rodríguez, Alejandro

“…The perspective adopted is based, on the one hand, on the calculation of the economic distance, or relative degree of affluence, that occurs between groups of individuals categorized by gender and by the average years of schooling attained; and, on the other hand, on the analysis of the recent evolution of this distance computed for the population of Argentina differentiated by these attributes, considering, in particular, the role played by the expansion in access to Higher Education observed during the last few years.  …”
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