Higher education institutions' costs and efficiency: taking the decomposition a further step

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Higher education institutions' costs and efficiency: taking the decomposition a further step

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Geraint Johnes
Jill Johnes

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A multiproduct cost function is estimated for English higher education institutions using a panel of data from recent years. The panel approach allows estimation by means of a random parameter stochastic frontier model which provides considerable new insights in that it allows the impact on costs of inter-institutional differences in the cost function itself to be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of provision and on returns to scale and scope.

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Paper provided by Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department in its series Working Papers with number 003052.

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Geraint Johnes, 2004. "A Fourth Desideratum: The CES Cost Function and the Sustainable Configuration of Multiproduct Firms," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 56(4), pages 329-332, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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Geraint Johnes, 2005. "Funding formulae where costs legitimately differ: the case of higher education in England," Working Papers 003053, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department. [Downloadable!]
Tanja Kirjavainen, 2007. "Efficiency of Finnish Upper Secondary Schools: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Panel Data," VATT Discussion Papers 428, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT). [Downloadable!]

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