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Public Spending Efficiency in the OECD: Benchmarking Health Care, Education, and General Administration

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  • Richard Dutu

    (LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres)

  • Patrizio Sicari

    (OCDE - Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

Abstract

In many OECD countries, changes in demography and health conditions are putting pressure on public finance. To prevent further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population) in a sample of OECD countries around 2012, focussing on health care, secondary education, and general public services. The DEA model has a two input-one output structure, with at least one of the variables representing a composite indicator controlling for country-specific factors (socio-economic environment and lifestyle factors, for example). We find wide dispersion in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input efficiency.

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  • Richard Dutu & Patrizio Sicari, 2020. "Public Spending Efficiency in the OECD: Benchmarking Health Care, Education, and General Administration," Post-Print hal-03063308, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03063308
    DOI: 10.2478/revecp-2020-0013
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    Keywords

    Administration; DEA; education; efficiency; health care; nonparametric; public spending;
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    JEL classification:

    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education

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