Assessing the efficiency of public schools using data envelopment analysis and frontier regression.

The cost efficiency of 520 New York school districts is measured using data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier regression. Mean inefficiency is 14% using either method, and the rank order correlation coefficient of inefficiency between the two methods is .86. The three largest school distr...

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Publicado en:	Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 321 - 332
Autores principales:	Ruggiero, John, Vitaliano, Donald F.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell July 1999
Materias:	Regression analysis Data envelopment analysis Cost effectiveness Educational finance Stochastic frontier analysis School districts New York (State)
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