panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

considerable appeal for the investigation of school performance and efficiency. Perhaps most important is that cost functions can … be specified to include multiple-output measures simultaneously, allowing us to estimate the efficiency of schools … functions typically require. This chapter develops and explores the estimation of school efficiency using school-level cost …