Projects, Working Papers & People UM
The Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research (TIER) is an inter-university Top Institute that conducts research in the field of evidence based education.
Projects
- UM Project 01 How effective are training accounts? Werkt het schoolingsbudget?
- UM Project 02 Student performance and teacher quality
- UM Project 03 Extended school times in primary education
- UM Project 04 Dropout decision of students in the Dutch secondary education.
- UM Project 05 Why are pupils dropping out?
- UM Project 06 Benchmarking tools to evaluate teachers at university and high school level
- UM Project 07 Motivation and social segregation in secondary education.
- UM Project 08 Evaluating the impact of teachers' group performance incentives in Dutch vocational training schools
- UM Project 09 Productivity of teachers, comparison between countries
- UM Project 10 The efficiency of school systems: a stochastic frontier approach
- UM Project 11 Onderwijs en Productiviteit
- UM Project 12 Cost benefit analysis of Leiden University College in the Haque
- UM Project 13 Cost benefit analysis HBO Investment Agenda
- UM Project 14 The effectiviness of Community Schools. (Brede Scholen)
- UM Project 15 Teachers quality and professionalism
Working Papers
- Cabus, Sofie J. and Kristof De Witte. Does School Time Matter? - On the impact of compulsory education age on school dropout. TIER/WP, August 20, 2010
- De Witte, K, Maassen van den Brink, H & Groot, W. Efficiency of education in generating literacy.
- De Witte, K, Rogge, N. (2010) To publish or not to publish? On the aggregation and drivers of research performance.
- De Witte, K. (2009) Dropout from secondary education: All’s well that begins well.
- De Witte, K. and Geys, B. (2009), The political economy of efficient public good provision: evidence from Flemish libraries using a generalised conditional efficiency framework.
- De Witte, K. and Kortelainen, M. (2008), Blaming the exogenous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables.
- De Witte, K. and Marques, R. (2008), Big and beautiful? On non-parametrically measuring scale economies in non-convex technologies.
- De Witte, K. and Marques, R. (2009), Gaming in a benchmarking environment. A non-parametric analysis of benchmarking in the water sector. MPRA Paper 14679.
- De Witte, K. and Marques, R. (2009), Influential observations in frontier models, a robust non-oriented approach to the water sector. mimeo.
- De Witte, K. and Rogge, N. (2009), Accounting for exogenous influences in a benevolent performance evaluation of teachers.
- De Witte, K. and S. Cabus (2010) Dropout prevention measures in the Netherlands, an evaluation
- De Witte, K. and Van Klaveren, C. (2010) How Uniform Incentives can Provide a Negative Motivation - an Application to early School Leaving in Two Large Cities.
- De Witte, K. and Verschelde, M. (2010) Estimating and explaining effciency in a multilevel setting: A robust two-stage approach.
- De Witte, K. and Verschelde, M. (2010) On estimating the effectiveness of resources. A local maximum likelihood frontier approach on care for students. Versie 20-1-2010
- Emrouznejad, A. and K. De Witte (2009), COOPER-framework: A Unified Standard Process for Non-parametric Projects. Aston University Working Paper.
- Groot, W. & H. Maassen van den Brink. Werkt de markt voor bedrijfsgerelateerde scholing? Een overzichtsstudie
- Marques, R. and De Witte, K. (2009), Is big better? On scale and scope economies in the Portuguese water sector. mimeo.
- Van Klaveren C. and J. Ghyselsy. Collective Labor Supply and Child Care Expenditures: Theory and Application
- Van Klaveren C., B. van Praag and H. Maassen van den Brink. Collective Labor Supply and Housework with Non-Participation of Women in Paid Labor
- Van Klaveren C., H. Maassen van den Brink and B. Van Praag. Intra-Household Work Timing
- Van Klaveren, C. Lecturing Style Teaching and Student Performance.
- Werkt het scholingsbudget?

