How efficiently produce elite US universities highly cited papers? A case study based on input and output data
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JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2018-10-22 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-SOG-2018-10-22 (Sociology of Economics)
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