Iparraguirre, José Luis; Ma, Ruosi - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 49 (2015) C, pp. 33-46
Using a three-stage data envelopment analysis approach, this paper explores efficiency in the provision of social care for older people in 148 English Councils in 2009/10. Departing from D'Amico and Fernández (2012) [31] our measure of efficiency is inscribed within the production of welfare...