countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if …

, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the … Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the efficiency test, we use Data Envelopment Analysis integrated with Principal … the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole …

This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go …-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard efficiency frontier analysis and allows for so-called super … “usual suspects”. Furthermore, standard output rankings are not well correlated with our estimated efficiency rankings, which …