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The Importance of Women's Education and Status for Fertility in Tanzania in the 1990s.

Kravdal, O. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

The analysis is based on individual 1996 TDHS data combined with aggregate data from the 1988 census and the 1991/1992 TDHS. When various sources of spuriousness are taken into account, education is found to reduce fertility much less than suggested by univariate tabulations of total fertility rate.

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Terminal units in DEA: Definition and Determination

Krivonozhko, Vladimir; R. Førsund, Finn; V. Lychev, Andrey - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2011

Applications of the DEA models show that inadequate results may arise in some cases, two of these inadequacies being: a) too many efficient units may appear in some DEA models; b) a DEA model may show an inefficient unit from the point of view of experts as an efficient one. The purpose of this...

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Weight Restrictions in DEA:Misplaced Emphasis?

R. Førsund, Finn - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2011

Measuring productive efficiency is an important research strand within fields of economics, management science and … operations research. One definition of efficiency is the proportional scaling needed for observations of an inefficient unit to … weighted inputs. When linear programming is used to estimate efficiency the two definitions give identical results due to the …

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International Benchmarking of Electricity Distribution Utilities

Førsund, Finn R; Edvardsen, Dag F. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2001

Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors. A sample of large electricity distribution utilities from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands for the year 1997 is...

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The Number of Organizations in Heterogeneous Societies

Lind, Jo Thori - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2010

I consider a society with heterogeneous individuals who can form organizations for the production of a differentiated service. An arrangement of organizations is said to be split up stable when there is no majority to split any of the organizations. Unlike other equilibrium concepts in the...

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Identifying Suspicious Efficient Units in DEA Models

Krivonozhko, Vladimir E.; Førsund, Finn R.; Lychev, … - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2012

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Measurement of Returns to Scale Using Non-Radial DEA Models

Krivonozhko, Vladimir E.; Førsund, Finn R.; Lychev, … - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2012

There are some specific features of the non-radial DEA (data envelopment analysis) models which cause some problems under the returns to scale measurement. In the scientific literature on DEA, some methods were suggested to deal with the returns to scale measurement in the non-radial DEA models....

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Efficiency and Productivity in the Operational Units of the Armed Forces

Torbjørn, Hanson - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2012

addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production process of an operational unit, productivity and efficiency are …

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The Malmquist Productivity Index.

Forsund, F.R. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1990

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Strategic Trade Policy for Exporting Industries: The General Oligopolistic Case.

Klette, T.J. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1991

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