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Measuring efficiency in education: an analysis of different approaches for incorporating non-discretionary inputs

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Cordero-Ferrera, Jose Manuel
Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco
Salinas-Jiménez, Javier

Abstract

Measuring efficiency in the education sector is a highly complex task. One of the reasons is that the main resource of schools (the type of students they have) lie outside of their control, which means that it must be treated differently to other factors in analysis. This study examines the differen... view more

Measuring efficiency in the education sector is a highly complex task. One of the reasons is that the main resource of schools (the type of students they have) lie outside of their control, which means that it must be treated differently to other factors in analysis. This study examines the different options available in the literature for incorporating non-controllable inputs in a DEA analysis in order to determine the most appropriate model for evaluating schools. Our empirical study presents the results obtained using the model proposed by Fried et. al (1999), though we use bootstrap techniques to avoid problems of bias in the estimations.... view less

Document language
English

Publication Year
2008

Page/Pages
p. 1323-1339

Journal
Applied Economics, 40 (2008) 10

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840600771346

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

Licence
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