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Students and Teachers: A DEA Approach to the Relative Efficiency of Portuguese Public Universities

Author(s) -

António Afonso,

Mariana Santos

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.744464

Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , portuguese , frontier , higher education , efficiency , efficient frontier , stochastic frontier analysis , parametric statistics , econometrics , mathematics education , economics , business , accounting , political science , computer science , statistics , mathematics , finance , economic growth , microeconomics , production (economics) , estimator , philosophy , linguistics , portfolio , law

We employ Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public universities. The input measures are constructed from the number of teachers and from universities’ spending while the output measures are based on the undergraduate success rate and on the number of doctoral dissertations. Using frontier analysis we are able to separate universities that might qualify, as “performing well” from those where some improvement might be possible. This could imply a better allocation by the universities of the usually scarce public financial resources available to tertiary education by the universities.

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