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Cross-country efficiency of secondary education provision: a semi-parametric analysis with non-discretionary inputs
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2005
We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604540
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The Political Economy of Efficient Public Good Provision : Evidence from Flemish Libraries Using a Generalised Conditional Efficiency Framework
De Witte, K.; Geys, Benny - 2011
Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, library services, education, utilities) can be characterised by a two-stage ‘production’ process. The first stage translates basic inputs (e.g., labour and capital) into service potential (e.g., opening hours), while the second stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207417
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Cross-Country Efficiency of Secondary Education Provision : A Semi-Parametric Analysis with Non-Discretionary Inputs
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2006
We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061308
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Cross-Country Efficiency of Secondary Education Provision : A Semi-Parametric Analysis with Non-Discretionary Inputs
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2021
We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318513
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Teaching Efficiency in Higher Education : A Non-parametric Analysis for Indian Institutions
Bandyopadhyay, Simanti; Sharma, Aishna; Bhageria, Tushar - 2021
Analysis (DEA) according to their location, ownership, courses they specialise in and age, using recent data published by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230463
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Blaming the Exogenous Environment? Conditional Efficiency Estimation with Continuous and Discrete Environmental Variables
De Witte, K.; Kortelainen, Mika - 2009
British pupils from the OECD Pisa data set. The results show that several exogenous discrete factors have a significant effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211645
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Testing the "separability" condition in two-stage nonparametric models of production
Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2015
Simar and Wilson (J. Econometrics, 2007) provided a statistical model that can rationalize two-stage estimation of technical efficiency in nonparametric settings. Two-stage estimation has been widely used, but requires a strong assumption: the second-stage environmental variables cannot affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317720
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Semi-parametric measures of scale characteristics of German natural gas-fired electricity generation
Seifert, Stefan - 2016
Scale characteristics are key properties of production functions that determine optimal firm sizes, and have considerable policy implications for sectors undergoing restructuring. However, estimates of scale characteristics typically vary with the assumptions of the underlying empirical model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453711
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Exact tests on returns to scale and comparisons of production frontiers in nonparametric models
Rønn-Nielsen, Anders; Kronborg, Dorte; Asmild, Mette - 2019
When benchmarking production units by non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA), an assumption has to … frontiers across samples of producers. Until now, no exact tests for examining returns to scale assumptions in DEA, or for test … test for the hypothesis of constant returns to scale in DEA. The others are tests for general frontier differences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132662
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Quality and its impact on efficiency
Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2019
The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields of study including production economics, operations research, engineering and business management. In this paper we provide a methodology for identifying latent quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986764