further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper … uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input …

, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student … that educational efficiency in Uruguayan high schools significantly dropped in nine percentage points between 2009 and 2012 …. In this vein, our findings also show positive effects on public schools’ efficiency of providing the responsibility in …

In this paper empirical application to the study about the efficiency of the performance of the educational systems … considered to evaluate the efficiency in the use of the resources devoted to education by OECD countries. Similar to previous …

This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it … defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of … government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over …