Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a … these factors into account, costs vary across providers because of differences in efficiency. Such differences offer clues … about good practice that can lead to improvements in the system as a whole. The role of efficiency is illustrated by …

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 …

techniques to estimate an output distance function over the period 1997/97 to 2007/08 in order to investigate the efficiency of … higher education institutions (HEIs) and to examine the opportunities for substitution between inputs. Mean efficiency across … institution in the highest efficiency quartile is closest to the pattern of production of the average pre-1992 university. The …

efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with a look at the general development of the literature, before … the input and output variables, as well as the determinants of efficiency, are discussed in detail. Based on the insights … present study provides the first systematic review on the usage of the stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency in …

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 …

expenditure efficiency for the Italian regions, using the non-parametric DEA approach. The computation of efficiency scores allows … to rank the regions and to detect some room for improvement in terms of efficiency gains at the regional level …

shows institutions' ability to produce graduates as measured against their basic academic teaching efficiency. The new … indicator avoids the well-known heterogeneity problem in efficiency measurements. Their politically determined focus on … alternative method of efficiency measurement in the teaching area. Compared to the DEA, the computation of the shift is easy, the …

This article investigates the efficiency of the university education using two linked databases (Saber Pro and Saber 11 … approach that combines the "order m" technique with the concept of a meta-frontier to disaggregate students' total efficiency … application of the technique of "order m" with the approach of the meta-frontier for the analysis of educational efficiency using …