This paper estimates the efficiency of students in English universities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a new … entry qualifications. The results reveal that university students differ in terms of the efficiency with which they use … inputs in generating good degrees and satisfaction. Students in some post-92 universities may be more efficient than students …

This paper links governance reforms with potential improvements in efficiency in Spanish universities. Taking the … known as robust efficiency. Moreover, we use a second stage regression analysis and a three-stage adjusted values non …-parametric model to analyse the influence of environmental factors on the efficiency scores obtained. Once environmental factors are …

The purpose of the study is to assess efficiency in public tertiary education systems across EU countries plus Japan … autonomy are positively related to efficiency.  Moreover, the study provides evidence that public spending on tertiary … education is more effective in what concerns labour productivity growth and employability when it is coupled with efficiency. …

This paper investigates the efficiency of European universities in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We … adopt a dual approach. At a country level, we investigate efficiency of public expenditure on tertiary education, while at a … university level we analyse the efficiency of the resources employed in achieving higher rankings (in terms of SDGs). Data …

This paper investigates the efficiency of European universities in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We … adopt a dual approach. At a country level, we investigate efficiency of public expenditure on tertiary education, while at a … university level we analyse the efficiency of the resources employed in achieving higher rankings (in terms of SDGs). Data …

’ efficiency. A deficiency of DEA is that the efficiency scores assigned to each firm are sensitive to sampling variations … is limited compared to the number of inputs and output. As a result, in case of small samples, DEA efficiency scores … efficiency scores with stochastic properties. However, the DEA Bootstrap is still inappropriate in the presence of small samples …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate changes in productivity, technical efficiency and technology across the … whether it was accompanied by technological change and/or technical efficiency. For estimating economic growth, aggregate …