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be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some … respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of …
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efficiency of higher education institutions. The method yields useful information about inter-institutional variation in cost … structure and technical efficiency. Returns to scale and scope are evaluated for the typical university, and it is found that …
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be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some … respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of …
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The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields …
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This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders. …
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This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders …
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We estimate a variety of models to evaluate costs in US higher education institutions. A novel feature of our approach involves the estimation of latent class and random parameter stochastic frontier models of the multiproduct cost function. This allows us fully to accommodate both the...
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this paper, an efficiency analysis of Italian and Spanish universities is conducted; as well as from a comparative … perspective. The efficiency scores are obtained using Data Envelopment Analysis. The results demonstrate a good average efficiency … relatively more efficient. Malmquist indexes show, in both cases, efficiency improvements in the period considered. In the …
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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 …
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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 …
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