This study examines the technical efficiency of schools in Australia and its determinants using NAPLAN test results of … region, state and territory in which the school is located. We estimate that the average technical efficiency score of … target for schools in the sample to reach the efficiency frontier is 100 NAPLAN points. Our results suggest that eliminating …

For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have …

care and other services for the ageing population of retirees in southeast Florida, as well as on tattooing and other body …

about the distance of these economies from their productivity frontiers. This study examines the technical efficiency of 43 … African countries using the non-parametric DEA technique and the double-bootstrap approach. Technical efficiency results by … income class show that the best performers in terms of technical efficiency are countries belonging to the upper middle group …

We investigate the comparative technical efficiency of producer cooperatives (PCs) and conventional firms (CFs) by …, technical efficiency indicators for each firm in each year are calculated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with reference … to a common production frontier. Subsequently, the measured efficiency scores become the dependent variables of a pooled …

This paper assesses energy efficiency in Swedish industry. Using unique firm-level panel data covering the years 2001 …-2008, the efficiency estimates are obtained for firms in 14 industrial sectors by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … results show that there was potential to improve energy efficiency in all the sectors and relatively large energy …

industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …

outsider position of Lazio cannot be attributed to different strength of the ageing process, neither to different evolution of …

companies, each with its specific characteristics. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the operating efficiency of … variables that affect their level of efficiency, using a truncated regression model, and taking into consideration the nature of … the operator (an approach not previously undertaken). Our analysis reveals, first, differences in the levels of efficiency …

The paper provides an analysis of efficiency in the care for the elderly sector in Norway. In a first step, we perform … DEA analysis to calculate the degree of efficiency in each municipality and the national level efficiency potential. The … analysis reveals substantial variation in efficiency across municipalities, and the national level efficiency potential is …