Evaluating technical efficiency of human capital formation in the Italian university: Evidence from Florence

Guido Ferrari () and Tiziana Laureti ()
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Guido Ferrari: Universitá di Firenze
Tiziana Laureti: Universitá della Tuscia - Viterbo

Statistical Methods & Applications, 2005, vol. 14, issue 2, No 6, 243-270

Abstract: Abstract. This paper models the human capital formation in the Italian university and utilizes a measure of technical efficiency to estimate the output-efficiency of human capital formation in the University of Florence, by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on a selected set of inputs and outputs. It uses the Program Evaluation (PE) procedure as well, in an attempt to attribute shares of the variation in efficiency to factors that are beyond the control and factors that are under the control of the graduates and faculties.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); frontier technical efficiency; production unit; bad output; Program Evaluation (PE) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/s10260-005-0109-7

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