Stochastic Cost Frontier and Inefficiency Estimates of Public and Private Universities: Does Government Matter?
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Keywords
Cost inefficiency; Stochastic cost frontier; Government ownership; Universities; D2; I21; I22; I23; L3; C33;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- L3 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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