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The efficiency of private and public schools in urban and rural areas: moving beyond the development goals
Author(s) -
Johnes Geraint,
Virmani Swati
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/itor.12658
Subject(s) - data envelopment analysis , frontier , economic growth , rural area , efficiency , economics , development economics , business , geography , political science , statistics , mathematics , archaeology , estimator , law
Data from the Young Lives study are used to evaluate the efficiency of education systems in four low and middle income countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. A meta‐frontier variant of data envelopment analysis is used to assess the relative performance of each country's system, and, within each country, to evaluate the impact of public and private schooling, and of urban and rural location. Comparisons are drawn between the four countries; the results indicate that in no country does the educational system perform uniformly badly or well. Conditioning on the inputs available, rural areas are often indicative of higher levels of efficiency, thus suggesting a number of implications for policy.