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100 1 _aBlackburn, Vincent.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNonparametric Estimation of Educational Production and Costs using Data Envelopment Analysis
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Vincent Blackburn, Shae Brennan, John Ruggiero.
264 1 _aBoston, MA :
_bSpringer US :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aX, 152 p. 34 illus., 10 illus. in color.
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490 1 _aInternational Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
_x0884-8289 ;
_v214
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- DEA in the Public Sector -- Input-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian Schools -- Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian School -- Productivity Measurement.
520 _aThis book provides a complete analysis of educational production and costs using the nonparametric technique known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of technical, allocative and scale efficiency in the public sector characterized by the influence of exogenous socio-economic variables. State of the art DEA models will be presented and fully discussed. Specific education topics important to policy makers including adequacy, technical, allocative and scale efficiency, productivity and environmental costs will be analyzed. To illustrate how these techniques can be applied to school systems worldwide, the authors use data on Australian elementary and high schools to develop nonparametric measures that will help inform current policy debate in Australia. The purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of educational production using numerous public sector DEA models. We provide a review of DEA with SAS programming code to estimate technical, scale and allocative efficiency in chapter 2. In chapter 3, we extend the DEA models to control for exogenous factors of production. SAS code is also provided to estimate all public sector models. We use simulated data to illustrate the results. Chapters 4-6 provide a complete analysis of the primary and secondary schools. We analyze input and output oriented models and derive measures of technical, allocative and scale efficiency. We also provide estimates of environmental costs that arise from schools facing different operating environments based on socioeconomic conditions. In addition, we show how DEA can provide insight on adequacy-the minimum cost of providing a pre-defined adequate education. The models presented are consistent with public sector production in general and educational production in particular. We also provide a complete analysis of educational productivity for both primary and secondary schools using state of the art public sector Malmquist measures. The authors use current data on Australian schools to highlight important policy questions related to efficiency and productivity given concerns that schools are not allocatively scarce resources in an economic efficient way. This research focus comes at an important watershed moment in the Australian Federal Governments' current involvement in designing new nationally consistent funding models for both government and non-government schooling sectors with effect from 2014. A new National School Resourcing Standard is proposed to be implemented signaling a move to resource adequacy, school efficiency and value for money dimensions. These standards are consistent with the measures presented and estimated in this book. As a result, the models implemented in this book can serve as the basis to evaluate the funding changes associated with the transition from a 'centralized' to a new 'decentralized' set of school funding arrangements.  .
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650 0 _aPublic finance.
650 0 _aSocial policy.
650 1 4 _aBusiness and Management.
650 2 4 _aOperation Research/Decision Theory.
650 2 4 _aSocial Policy.
650 2 4 _aPublic Economics.
700 1 _aBrennan, Shae.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aRuggiero, John.
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710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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830 0 _aInternational Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
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