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Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay : main drivers and policy implications

Santín, Daniel; Sicilia, Gabriela - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-28

identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. In the first stage …, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student …

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Cross-country efficiency of secondary education provision: a semi-parametric analysis with non-discretionary inputs

Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2005

We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the …

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Measuring relative efficiency of secondary education in selected EU and OECD countries: the case of Slovenia and Croatia

Aristovnik, Aleksander; Obadić, Alka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then …

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A DEA Approach to the Relative Efficiency of Portuguese Public Universities

Afonso, António; Santos, Mariana - 2008

We employ Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities. The input measures are constructed from the number of teachers and from universities' spending while the output measures are based on the undergraduate success rate and on the number of...

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Assessing Education and Health Efficiency in OECD Countries Using Alternative Input Measures

Afonso, António - 2012

-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. The efficiency frontier is estimated using both measures of expenditure and quantity inputs, as a …

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The efficiency of educational production : a comparison of the Nordic countries with other OECD countries

Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranæs, Torben - 2015

education. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare (benchmark) the Nordic countries with a relevant group of rich OECD … Norway and Denmark are clearly inefficient. However, using PISA test scores as indicators of student input quality in upper …

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Students and Teachers : A DEA Approach to the Relative Efficiency of Portuguese Public Universities

Afonso, António; Santos, Mariana - 2005

We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities, using data mainly for 2003. The input measures are constructed from the number of teachers and from universities' spending while the outputs measures are based on...

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Public Tertiary Education Expenditure in Portugal : A Non-Parametric Efficiency Analysis

Afonso, António; Santos, Mariana - 2004

We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities for 2001. Due to the tertiary education organisational features we consider universities as well as faculties and institutes as decision entities. Using frontier...

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Non-parametric approaches to education and health efficiency in OECD countries

Afonso, António; Aubyn, Miguel St. - In: Journal of Applied Economics VIII (2005) November, pp. 227-246

non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. Those are two areas where public expenditure is of great importance so that …

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Efficiency of Tertiary Education Expenditure in CEE Countries : Data Envelopment Analysis

Yotova, Lilia - 2018

This paper studies the efficiency of tertiary education expenditure in the EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe in comparative terms. For this purpose, the method of Data Envelopment Analysis that can be classified as non-parametric is used. The efficiency is investigated via three...

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