Hashimoto, Akihiro; Sugita, Takeshi; Haneda, Shoko - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 43 (2009) 4, pp. 263-273
This paper presents a Data Envelopment Analysis/Malmquist index (DEA/MI) analysis of the change in quality-of-life (QOL), which is defined as the state of a social system as measured by multiple social-indicators. Applying panel data from Japan's 47 prefectures for the period 1975-2002, we...