RT Journal Article T1 A Composite Indicator to Compare the Performance of Male and Female Students in Educational Systems A1 Segovia González, María Manuela A1 Contreras Rubio, Ignacio K1 Education K1 Composite Indicator K1 Data Envelopment analysis K1 Gender perspective AB Composite indicators have proved to be a suitable tool for the evaluation of complex phenomena, by enabling a large amount of information to be concentrated in a unique value. In this paper, a methodology based on geometric aggregation and free-selection of weights is proposed for the evaluation of the educational systems of OECD countries. In an effort to carry out a global evaluation, not only is a group of indicators considered to measure the academic outcomes, but also a group of indicators that measure the social dimension of the educational system and the self-perceptions of the students regarding their academic stage. The features of the proposed methodology enable the results for male and female students to be compared separately, since not only identify the contribution of each aspect to the global indicator, but also ascertain the sources of the differences between the values obtained for the male and female subgroups. PB Springer YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19718 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19718 LA en NO Segovia-González; Contreras, I. (2023). A Composite Indicator to Compare the Performance of Male and Female Students in Educational Systems. Social Indicators Research 165, 181-212. NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica. DS RIO RD May 22, 2026