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Using non-radial DEA to assess school efficiency in a cross-country perspective: An empirical analysis of OECD countries


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Title:
Using non-radial DEA to assess school efficiency in a cross-country perspective: An empirical analysis of OECD countries
Authors:
Aparicio, Juan  
Cordero, Jose M.
González, Martín
López Espín, José Juan
Department:
Departamentos de la UMH::Estadística, Matemáticas e Informática
Issue Date:
2017-07-26
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/11000/6250
Abstract:
In this paper we use data from OECD countries participating in PISA 2012 to assess the efficiency of schools in a cross-country framework. In the analysis, and in contrast to previous applications, we con- sider that schools might concentrate their effort s on improving the results in one dimension of the edu- cational output to a greater extent than in the other. To do this, we rely on non-radial efficiency measures of performance and the estimation of an educational production function based upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) techniques. Specifically, DEA non-radial measures allow for identifying different levels of inefficiency for each output considered (reading and maths). In particular, we apply a non-radial measure based on Ando et al. [5] and Aparicio et al. [12]. Our results show that the majority of schools in OECD countries tend to be less efficient in reading than in mathematics
Keywords/Subjects:
Data envelopment analysis
Non-radial measures
Least distance
Education
Type of document:
application/pdf
Access rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2017.07.004
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Artículos Estadística, Matemáticas e Informática



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