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Do university units differ in the efficiency of resource utilization?

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Daghbashyan, Zara () (CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology)
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Many efficiency studies have been conducted to look at the relative performance of universities. Judgments were made on the overall performance of universities compared to the best performing ones in the sample. Meanwhile the possibility of efficiency variation within the same university was not taken into account. The focus of this paper is on the measurement of technical efficiency within the units of the same university. It is interesting to see if the average efficiency score of university can reflect the performance of various units operating within the same technical university. The analysis is conducted for the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden (KTH), using the data from the Research Assessment Exercise conducted by KTH in 2008. It provides a unique opportunity of quantifying different teaching and research outputs while controlling for quality.Technical efficiency scores are estimated using non-parametric production frontier methodologies. Different model specifications are tested.

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Paper provided by Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies in its series Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation with number 176.

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Date of creation: 01 Apr 2009
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Keywords: Technical and scale efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; universities;

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C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education Research Institutions

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