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An Empirical Survey of Frontier Efficiency Measurement Techniques in Education

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Andrew C. Worthington
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Educational institutions worldwide are increasingly the subject of analyses aimed at defining, measuring and improving efficiency. However, despite the importance of efficiency measurement in education, it is only relatively recently that the more advanced econometric and mathematical programming frontier techniques have been applied to primary and secondary schools, university departments and degree programmes, and universities as a whole. This paper attempts to provide a synoptic survey of the comparatively few empirical analyses in education using frontier efficiency measurement techniques. Both the measurement of inefficiency in education and the determinants of educational efficiency are examined.

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Volume (Year): 9 (2001)
Issue (Month): 3 (December)
Pages: 245-268
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